Quotes on Children

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.

Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.

I don't think losing 3 million jobs, having deficits as far as the eye can go, having 2 million people lose their health insurance, turning your back on kids in schools and not funding No Child Left Behind represents a vision.

May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?

We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Breast cancer is not just a woman's issue - it affects all of us: the brothers, husbands, fathers, children and friends.

I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

When I hear people talk about juggling or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy because sacrifice infers that there was something better to do than the thing - than being with your children.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.