Children Quotes
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You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
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I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.
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I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
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I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them.
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At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.
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A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.
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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
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As a kid, there was not much I could do to stop the violence in our home. When I got older, as a father, I did everything I could to raise my children with a father that loved them, protected them, and made them feel safe.
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Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.
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We are raising a generation of children who may not know how to mobilize without Facebook.
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The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.
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I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.
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Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
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Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.
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Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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Having children has been one of the biggest things that has happened to me in my life.
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So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.
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My dad and his friends wanted to give the children something to look out their windows and see during the holiday season.
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What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.
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You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.
