Quotes About Children

The kids seem all right, but the adults. ... I wouldn't want to have to depend on them. Not even for little things.

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Humanity also suffered; though, save in the regions near the seat of war, it was in general only the children and the old people who suffered greatly.

been waiting all my life to meet you? Well, it applies to children. First as babies, but particularly once they've gotten old enough to have well-defined characters. It's completely true—you realize that you really have been waiting all your life to meet this person. There's nothing to compare to it.

Entre los artículos almacenados en el "Canadá" que más dolorosamente me impresionaron, había una fila de coches de niño, que me trajeron al pensamiento a todos los desgraciados párvulos que los alemanes habían ejecutado. Otra sección emocionante era la destinada a los zapatos de niños y juguetes, que siempre estaba bien abastecida

One internee told me that he had been in their barrack while they waited for the trucks. The children were sitting on the floor, wide-eyed and silent. He asked one lad, "Well, how are you, Janeck?" With a thoughtful expression on his face, the child answered, "Everything is so bad here that it can only be better 'over there.' I am not afraid.

Don't they have men child psychologists in this city? Or have women established some kind of monopoly on children?

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

the UNICEF State of the World's Children report for 2001 stated that 'for a government that wants to improve the lot of its people, investing in the first years of life is the best money it can spend. But tragically, both for children and for nations, these are the years that receive the least attention.

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

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

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

[The] biggest mistake in helping undeserved kids is not raising the bar high enough. Children will believe if you believe in them.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Few children learn to love books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful written word; someone has to lead the way.

With the ability to produce more goods than people need, consumer capitalism has to make children into consumers earlier and keep them at it longer. Hence contemporary America, a culture of perennial adolescents.

Ensuring social protection for all children and other vulnerable groups is critical to reduce poverty.

Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

Rather than get our astronomy with the help of a comic primer of astronomy, it were better to be ignorant with the children whose knowledge went no further than the nursery rhyme, whose hymn to the star was on the note of "how I wonder what you are."

It is a solemn thing, and no small scandal in the Kingdom, to see God's children starving while actually seated at the Father's table.