Quotes About Children

'One Yellow Daffodil' is both a look to the past and to the future and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children.

With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.

My goal was to have one husband and seven children, but it turned out to be the other way around.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child's foot.

My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.

Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's, given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.

The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, Could I get you your check? and we answered, How about the menu first?

You see, money's not everything in life is it? but it keeps you in touch with your children...

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.