Children Quotes
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I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
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The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
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To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
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We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.
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God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.
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In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
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People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.
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People say how unbelievable and enjoyable this whole thing must be. But watching your children play quarterback, putting themselves on the line every game, getting smacked around and bloodied up... it's very, very hard.
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It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.
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Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.
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First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
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Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down – the legacy stops here.
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As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
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When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.
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Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.
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This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.
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In a 21st-century economy, it is critical that we equip our nation's children with the tools they need to compete in a global marketplace.
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All revolutions devour their own children.
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Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.
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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
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Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.
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The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.
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I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.
