Quotes of: American-children Keyword

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

Fay Wray

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Grace Abbott

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Garrison Keillor

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

Kevin Cramer

In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing.

Mark Helprin

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Russell Baker

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

Brenda Lee

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.

Chris Van Allsburg

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

Ezra Taft Benson

Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.

Kevin Wilson

This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.

The Atonement Child

Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.

Hour of the Wolf

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

Keeping Faith

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.

Killosophy

For the entrance is low: we must stoop till we are no taller than children to get in.

Reflections on the Psalms

Ever heard the tale of Neptune's Children?

RKU: Not to Be Seen or Heard by the Rest of the World

To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

The Sign and Its Children

When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.

The Sign and Its Children

Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow?

Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education

We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.

The Mother at Home

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

Nocturnes