Quotes of: American-children Keyword

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

Al Sharpton

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

Andy Serkis

Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time

Ali ibn-e-Abu Talib

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

Anzia Yezierska

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

Barbara Boxer

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

Brene Brown

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Beverly Cleary

I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

Beverly Cleary

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Allan Bloom

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

Beverly Cleary

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.

Jamie Lee Curtis

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Alice Walker

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.

Ricky Martin

As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'

Tom Sturridge

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Umberto Eco

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

Victor Borge

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Vladimir Lenin

Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.

Virginia Postrel

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

Vera B. Williams

I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.

Willie Aames

I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.

Willie Aames