child quotes

“America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.”

“A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. ”

— Kurt Cobain

“It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“ It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live. ”

— Johnny Depp

“The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there. ”

— Johnny Depp

“I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up. ”

— Johnny Depp

“Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

— Helen Keller

“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”

— Maya Angelou

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

— Maya Angelou

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.”

— Mick Jagger

“A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.”

— Stephen King

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy