Quotes of: American-children Keyword

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

60% of children are born to unwed mothers. I should start pulling out. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

The Society of the Spectacle

Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.

A Place Far Away

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

A Prisoner of Birth

If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way

Piddly Poems for Children

A bunch of bad songs, make an awful whine.

Piddly Poems for Children

Don't say negative things about your spouse and children.

The Prince and the Pauper

I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective.

Chris Van Allsburg

What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.

Chanda Kochhar

If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

Irwin Redlener

The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

Irwin Redlener

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Marian Wright Edelman

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.

Mike Newell

Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know.

Misti Renea Neely

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair.

Onyi Anyado

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Ogden Nash

What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

O. J. Simpson

We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

Pat Brown

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

Pierce Brosnan