Quotes of: American-children Keyword

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

Mary Antin

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

Martha Beck

Our ability to compete for the jobs of tomorrow depends, above all, on our capacity to educate children today.

Michael Bennet

The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.

Marcia Gay Harden

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.

Michael Bassey Johnson

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if it's too difficult for grown-ups, you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

Michael McCaul

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

Rohinton Mistry

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

Rich Mullins

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

Rand Paul

I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Rita Rudner

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

Russell Smith

She was mined for the children in her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them.

Robert Wrigley

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

Samantha Bond

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.

Seth Berkley

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

Simon Callow

In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.

Stephen Colbert

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

Mickey Rourke