Famous Quotes: Children

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Use this quote  

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Use this quote  

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.
Use this quote  

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.
Use this quote  

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
Use this quote  

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
Use this quote  

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Use this quote  

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
Use this quote  

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
Use this quote  

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
Use this quote  

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Use this quote  

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.
Use this quote  

Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.
Use this quote  

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
Use this quote  

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
Use this quote  

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
Use this quote  

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
Use this quote  

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Use this quote  

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Use this quote  

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
Use this quote