Child quotes

“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.” Victor Hugo

“No one can keep a secret better than a child.” Victor Hugo

“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.” Victor Hugo

“The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.” Victor Hugo

“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.” Julius Robert Oppenheimer

“How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.” Ovid

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” William Shakespeare

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.” William Shakespeare

“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!” William Shakespeare

“I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.” Robert Redford

“I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.” Robert Redford

“I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.” Robert Rodriguez

“Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.” Robert Rodriguez

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.” Marilyn Monroe

“Tell the children the truth.” Bob Marley

“Adults are obsolete children.” Dr Seuss

“After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.” Christina Aguilera

“Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.” Christina Aguilera

“I felt caged by my childhood.” Christina Aguilera

“I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.” Christina Aguilera

“When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'” Christina Aguilera

“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.” George Washington Bush

“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.” George Washington Bush

“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“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