Children Quotes

To be an actor you have to be a child.

Paul Newman
- Children
- Actors
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo
- Country
- Teacher
- Parent

Children from low-income families are four times as likely as privately insured children to receive antipsychotic medicines. These medications often are used to make abused and neglected children more tractable. In 2008 19,045 children age five and under were prescribed antipsychotics through Medicaid.

Bessel van der Kolk
His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

Will Rogers, Jr.
The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?

Thomas Sowell
- Long
- School
- Problem
I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked in a shipyard. I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.

Stacey Abrams
- Mother
- College
- Balance
Hope is still ahead of you - but someday it will be behind you. That's really the point of children, to have someone to pin hope to.

Edward Bunker
- Children
- Hope
We need to make sure teachers are in schools and that children have teachers.

Eric Garcetti