Children Quotes - Page 14

• There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Spiritual, Morning

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.260, Open Road Media

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• I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Voice, Use, Aids

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• Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

  Charles de Lint

  Drawing, Effort, Too Much

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information, using schools and other sites; more protection for girls, orphaned children and young women;and more partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.

  Carol Bellamy

  Girl, School, Commitment

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• I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

  Erma Bombeck

  Time, Views, Years

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• 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

  School, Democracy, Age

  Grace Abbott (1968). “The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor”

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• UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?

  Clay Aiken

  Survival, Causes, Committed

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• Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares is just a phone call away

  Jeroo Billimoria

  Phones, Who Cares, World

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• The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its utility can be seen in the everyday use to which I have seen it increasingly being put by country after country, in policy, in practice and in law.

  Carol Bellamy

  Country, Agreement, Law

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• When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

  Charles Lamb

  Pride, People, Parent

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.133

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• God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children

  Mary Howitt

  Father, Heart, Race

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• And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.

  Williston Fish

  Night, Long, Childhood

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• As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Desire, Genius

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.49

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• All television is children's television.

  Richard Adler

  Television

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• A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

  Charles Lamb

  Sweet, Sweetest, Sweet Child

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'

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• Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Fate, World

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• Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

  J. D. Salinger

  My Best Friend, Facts

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• It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Secret, Honor, Records

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• The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

  Paul Wellstone

  Thinking, People, Goal

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• Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged; let us be loud; let us be bold.

  Brad Pitt

  Health, Drug, Doe

  "Hyde Park centre stage of greatest show on earth" by Vanessa Thorpe and Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2005.

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• A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Mean, Adults, Looks

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• Investing in [children] is not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a national necessity. If the foundation of your house is crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it while you're building astronomically expensive fences to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now, up front, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later on.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Luxury, Issues, House

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• A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.

  Abraham Maslow

  Routine, World, Want

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