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Children Quotes



"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship."


"There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era."


"The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that."


"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up."


"Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder."


"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."


"We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment."


"There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all."


"Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again."


"Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity."


"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."


"It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest."


"The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population."


"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children."


"When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child."


"Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!"


"I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children."


"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them."


"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."


"If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough."


"There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."


"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."


"I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated."


"A good book written for children can be read by adults."


"He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake."


"One of the most important things we adults can do for young children is to model the kind of person we would like them to be."


"Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better."


"I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children."


"I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic."


"Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework."


"Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account."


"One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking."


"We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories."
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