Marcia Fudge Quotes

We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.

Marcia Fudge

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• My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Love

• The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Small

• Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Children
  • Society
  • Education

• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • You
  • Question
  • Mystery

• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Sometimes
  • Young
  • Old

• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Family
  • Home

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• I like children - fried.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Like

• I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Children
  • Thought

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Children
  • Know
  • Hunger

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Judge

• Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• This may not be the most serious problem in the world, but it is a familiar one: How do you divide a piece of cake equally between two children and also make sure that each of them sees it as a fair division?

  

  Eric Maskin
  • World
  • Children
  • May

• There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about it, and that's control our children's will--that spirit that lets them be themselves apart from you and me. They are not ours to possess, control, manipulate, or even to make mind.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Parents

• The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

  

  Elliot Richardson
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Learning

• We are speaking of life, because whenever we speak of universities, we speak of life. What are you? If I were asked that question right now, I would have to say that you are life, you are symbols of life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Question

• When something favors France, I say so. When it doesn't, I say so, too.

  

  Marine Le Pen

• We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Children