Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As the first African woman to receive this prize, I accept it on behalf of the people of Kenya and Africa, and indeed the world. I am especially mindful of women and the girl child. I hope it will encourage them to raise their voices and take more space for leadership.

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill;

Cyrus was observed to have more docility than any of his years and to show more submission to those of an advanced age than any other children, though of a condition inferior to his own.

All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.

I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

All the child-star clichés. I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

“So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.”

"Our planet is going to hit disaster if we don’t turn this ship around and so it’s basically like, there’s a scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult."

“But one half the children born, it is computed, die before the age of manhood.”

“Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.”

"I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children."

"Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children."

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.