Quotes of: American-children Keyword

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

James Dyson

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

Joan Didion

I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.

John Eisenhower

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

Jay Griffiths

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I want them to know that I'm on their side.

Juan Pablo Galavis

People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children.

Janeane Garofalo

Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

Jack Horner

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

Jonathan Kozol

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

Jonathan Kozol

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

Gloria Steinem

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

James Herriot

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Meryl Streep

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

Richard Dawkins

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Louis C. K.

I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.

Liam Neeson

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

Eric Braeden

My main commitment is to Caudwell Children. I put more than £1m a year into the charity, besides a lot of time and effort.

John Caudwell

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

Kelly Preston

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

Natasha Hamilton

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

Rachel Cusk