Quotes of: American-children Keyword

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

Yo-Yo Ma

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

Trevor Phillips

Miette: When you're born in the gutter you end up in the port.

The City of Lost Children

Kee: [giving birth] Fuck! Theo, I can't fucking do it! Theodore Faron: Yes, you fucking can!

Children of Men

[last lines] Kee: Theo, the boat. The boat! It's OK. We are safe now. We're safe.

Children of Men

Syd: Alright, yer 'fugees now. Show Syd the 'fugee face. Sad face. [goofy frown] Syd: Sad 'fugee face.

Children of Men

Karen Pommeroy: The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.

Donnie Darko

Gru: It's like my heart is a tooth, and it's got a cavity that can only be filled with children.

Despicable Me

Ruth: My daddy always used to say there was a separate god for children.

Fried Green Tomatoes

Jim Stark: Nobody talks to children. Judy: No, they just tell them.

Rebel Without a Cause

Captain von Trapp: Oh, there's nothing wrong with the children. Only the governesses.

The Sound of Music

[during the attack on the mansion] Colossus: I can help you. Wolverine: [Motioning to the children] Help them!

X2

I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.

Coolio

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

Melissa Etheridge

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

William Adams

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

Uzo Aduba

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

Jack Prelutsky

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Rita Dove

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Charles Lamb

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

Ernestine Rose

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.

Dorothy Height