Quotes of: American-children Keyword

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo

When my children were young, one of the treats promised by their grandparents was a ride in Grandad's car.

Laurie Graham

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bertrand Russell

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

Marion Cotillard

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education that provides ample time and space to play.

Darell Hammond

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

Yoshihiko Noda

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

Nicolas Cage

I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it's important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.

Terry Wogan

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

Billie Joe Armstrong

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.

Kate Winslet

Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are.

Morgan Brittany

If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.

Bob Bartlett

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

Giorgio Napolitano

Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.

Jef I. Richards

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

Dylan Moran

God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.

Francis W. Newman

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.

Chevy Chase

You can't live your life through your children.

Carl Lewis