Childrens Quotes
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More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women’s lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world’s finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children’s children.
louise burfitt-dons— Speech on the Hot Women Campaign at UK Aware (April 2008)
I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children’s potential, passion and confidence.
masiela lusha— Quoted in the Tolucan Times
We are taking our four little children, and I never need anyone to remind me that they need their breakfast . . . dinner . . . supper. And I cannot imagine that our heavenly Father is less able or less willing to remember His children’s needs, when He sends them forth to the end of the earth about His business.
james hudson taylor— A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1984, 156)
The gruel that children’s little hands have stirred is sweeter than nectar.
thiruvalluvar— Verse VII.2
VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children’s videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.
phil vischer— p. 1 (The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables (2005))
Jarrett would be easier to take if he cared half as much about children’s bodies and minds as he pretends to care about their souls.
octavia butler— Chapter 20 (p. 391)
There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
Anton Chekhov— Letter to M.V. Kiseleva (January 14, 1887)
In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children’s toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects.
theo van doesburg— 'The will to Style', in De Stijl February-March 1922; as quoted in "Theo van Doesburg", Joost Baljeu, Studio Vista, London 1974, p. 123
More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women’s lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world’s finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children’s children.
— Louise Burfitt-Dons, Speech on Hot Women Campaign given at UK Aware circa 2008.
Show me your children’s games, and I will show you the next hundred years.
— Smartbomb by Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby
As a result of its generous stand [Robert Maynard Hutchins’ controversial policy of admitting students after their second year of high-school], the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children’s Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins…playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.
a. j. liebling— Chicago: The Second City (Knopf, 1952; University of Nebraska Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8032-8035-1), p. 110
