Famous quotes containing the words american and/or children:
“What a terrible thing has happened to us all! To you there, to us here, to all everywhere. Peace who was becoming bright-eyed, now sits in the shadow of death; her handsome champion has been killed as he walked by her very side. Her gallant boy is dead. What a cruel, foul, and most unnatural murder! We mourn here with you, poor, sad American people.”
—Sean OCasey (18841964)
“Answering questions can be a responsibility. Children think that their parents have all the answers. In the words of one child, children are whyers and parents becausers.”
—Ruth Formanek (20th century)