Children famous quotes

The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.
-- A. A. Gill

#Cheating #Sex #Children

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
-- A. A. Gill

#Children #Long #Television

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
-- A. A. Milne

#Children #Adventure #Mets

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
-- A. B. Simpson

#Prayer #Children #Father

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
-- A. B. Simpson

#Children #Giving #Doe

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Brother #Children #Responsibility

When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.
-- A. C. Dixon

#Jesus #Prayer #Children

We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
-- A. C. Dixon

#Faith #Spiritual #Children

Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
-- A. E. Housman

#Mother #Morning #Children

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
-- A. E. van Vogt

#Christmas #Children #Book

When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
-- A. H. Almaas

#Children #Self Esteem #Joy

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
-- A. J. Liebling

#Children #War #Hero

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Children #Believe #Answers

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Children #Remarkable #Dictatorship

Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.
-- A. P. Herbert

#Lonely #Children #Golf

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
-- A. R. Rahman

#Children #Imagination #Branches

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
-- A. S. W. Rosenbach

#Children #Book #Reading

Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Children #Party #Hands

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Children #Abuse #Religion

Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
-- A.C.H. Smith

#Children #Taken #Expectations

Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story. And in the absence of other narratives, it becomes the flagpole that the family hangs its identity from.
-- A.M. Homes

#Family #Children #Agreement

When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business.
-- Aaliyah

#Mom #Business #Children

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.
-- Aaron Huey

#Children #War #Korea

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Children #Character #People

Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Children #Making Love #Hot

I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
-- Abbie Cornish

#Children #Thinking #Dysfunction

I suppose that every parent loves his child, but I know, without any suppossing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares
-- Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#Children #Home #Parenting

A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.
-- Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#Christian #Children #Home

If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of me? Once you are pregnant, there is no if. That child, though tiny and in an early stage of development, already exists!
-- Abby Johnson

#Children #Development #Growing

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
-- Abdallah II

#Children #Offering #Views

We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.
-- Abdallah II

#Children #Waste #Action

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
-- Abdoulaye Wade

#Country #Children #Mind

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Children #Child Of God

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Teacher #Children #Creativity

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Children #Sacrifice #Today

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Children #Paddy #Fields

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Jobs #Children #Talking

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Children #Responsibility #Sometimes

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Children #Fighting #Play

I never put a price on a child
-- Abebech Gobena

#Children

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
-- Abel Korzeniowski

#Children #Growing Up #Memories

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams they may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
-- Aberjhani

#Dream #Spiritual #Children

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
-- Aberjhani

#Inspirational #Children #Recovery

As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this (media attention and showbiz world). The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
-- Abhishek Bachchan

#Children #Media #Parent

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
-- Abigail Breslin

#Mom #Children #Thinking

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Inspirational #Children #Parenting

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Children #Tyrants #People

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
-- Abraham Kaplan

#Children #Humorous #Parenting

I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Children #Cutting #Opportunity

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Children #Father #Love Is

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Teacher #Children #Adults

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Children #War #Government

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Family #Children #Love Is

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Children #Fate #Hands

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Children #War #Father

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Children #Routine #World

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Mother #Children #Crazy

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Children #Growing Up #Nice

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Children #Years #Tragedy

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir

#Children #Islam #Praying

Be just: the unjust never prosper. Be valiant: die rather than yield. Be merciful: slay neither old men, children, nor women. Destroy neither fruit trees, grain, nor cattle. Keep your word, even to your enemies.
-- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

#Children #Men #Yield

It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
-- Ada Leverson

#Children #Pie #Giving

I'm not gonna fall. I'm tired of falling. I'm tired of seeing our people fall. I don't believe in failure. It's what we put in our minds and our hearts to succeed. And success isn't about money. Success isn't about the biggest house in the world. Success is about loving your family, taking care of your child.
-- Adam Beach

#Children #Believe #Fall

We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.
-- Adam Braun

#Children #Quality #Earth

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
-- Adam Braun

#Children #Needs #Enabling

Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.
-- Adam Fletcher

#Children #People #Perspective

I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for,
-- Adam Kokesh

#Country #Children #Block

Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (...) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.
-- Adam Nicolson

#Children #Book #Long

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.
-- Adam Sandler

#Children #Way #Difficult

I'm not making every decision due to my children. But I do hope they never see some movies I'm doing. But I do want to do more family-friendly movies.
-- Adam Sandler

#Children #Decision #Friendly

When I was kid, yeah, my family, my parents wanted me to marry a Jewish girl because that was what they taught their children, and thought it would be an easier life for me to raise a Jewish kid. And I have a Jewish wife, I have a Jewish kid. They seem pretty happy about it.
-- Adam Sandler

#Girl #Children #Kids

The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.
-- Adam Sandler

#Children #Sleep #Kids

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
-- Adam Sandler

#Brother #Children #Growing Up

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
-- Adam Savage

#Children #Church #Generations

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
-- Adam Schiff

#Children #Giving #Diversity

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
-- Adam Zagajewski

#Children #Flames #Lips

I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.
-- Adelaide Clemens

#Children #Military #Actors

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.
-- Adele

#Children #Moon #Together

You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.
-- Adele

#Children #Stress #Prioritize

When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
-- Adele Faber

#Children #Wrestling #Giving

When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
-- Adele Faber

#Children #Reality #Feelings

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
-- Adele Faber

#Children #Parent #Wonderful

I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
-- Adele Faber

#Children #Parent #Experts

The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
-- Adeline Yen Mah

#Children #Destiny #East

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#Children #White #People

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#Children #Mean #Fighting

Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.
-- Adi Da

#Children #Way #Remember

Repentance is for little children.
-- Adolf Eichmann

#Children #Littles #Repentance

The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Children #Government #People

The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation
-- Adolf Hitler

#Children #Fighting #Battle

An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Children #Men #Tyrants

For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!
-- Adolf Hitler

#Prayer #Children #Boys

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
-- Adolf Hitler

#Children #Your Side #Community

Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Nature #Children #Sacrifice

I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race...After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?
-- Adolf Hitler

#Children #Dark #Men

...the existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood, the freedom and independence of the Fatherland, and the nation's ability to fulfill the mission appointed to it by the Creator of the universe.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Children #War #Race

Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Children #Sick #Insanity

Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Children #Husband #Home

It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes with missions which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly, but in all seriousness, teach our European humanity that where parents are not healthy it is a deed pleasing to God to take pity on a poor little healthy orphan child and give him father and mother, than themselves to give birth to a sick child who will only bring unhappiness and suffering on himself and the rest of the world.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Christian #Mother #Children

The heaviest blow which ever struck humanity was Christianity; Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Children #Blow #Humanity