Quotes on Children

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.

Make sure your son and daughter understands they don't get to decide when or where they go to war. It is rich, predominantly white men in the House and Senate that have the power to send children of other parents - but not their own children - off to die [and] be injured in a senseless war.

It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.

The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. Africa should say: 'thank you very much but we need this money to meet the needs of children who are dying right now so we will put the debt servicing payments into urgent social investment in health, education, drinking water, control of AIDS and other needs.'

Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying "I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award." The other is "You want fries with that?".

Authentic men aren't afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they're sad, admit it when they're wrong, and ask for help when they need it.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

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.

Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!