Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Edward Kennedy

There is clear and convincing evidence that John Roberts is the wrong choice for chief justice, ... I oppose the nomination, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.

We want all students to be reading at grade level and meet the AYP (adequate yearly progress) requirements of the No Child Left Behind,

We feel very strongly about all children having an equal opportunity for education,

We got our favorite cookie and our favorite chocolate and our favorite nut mix. And then we got suckers to make our children happy.

Mona Simpson

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

We're very excited about this. This is a great thing for the children.

Very young children can just not protect themselves as effectively as adults can.

Orson Scott Card

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

We don't yet know what factors determine whether people with this genetic variation do or don't end up with dyslexia, ... A host of environmental and genetic influences likely influences or determines whether somebody with this particular genetic variation ends up being dyslexic or not. And until the nature of some of those other influences is fully specified, we won't know what it means to say to somebody that their 5-year-old child has this particular genetic endowment.

You do your children a disservice if you don't find time for yourself. If you're always making sacrifices for them, they won't learn to respect your time as they grow.

Mike Quigley

Growing up during the Cold War, I remember the seemingly imminent threat of nuclear war. In primary school we were taught to 'duck-and-cover' for protection. But even as children hiding under wooden desks, we recognized the inadequacies of this strategy.

Paul Weller

All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing.

Fashion fads are always tricky because you want your child to fit in with her friends, but you also want to teach her that she doesn't have to follow every trend that comes along. So when there's something new she wants to try, let her experiment, but if you think she's spending too much time or money on it, then you might want to step in.

Otto Rank

Fathers and Mothers! Honor your children and love them.

Eliot Spitzer

Every time we keep a child from smoking, we improve public health.

Everything was in place to make this child safe.

Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

There's a great deal more virus in the shingles vaccine that in the children's vaccine, and that's because children are not immune at all.

The toughest part was having to take our daughter to court and show and tell the judge that she was an unfit parent, ... She was our only child but she had spiraled out of control. She'd be in their lives for a week and out for six months. We had to have control over what was happening to our grandbabies, so we took her to court.

Ryan Lee

The Trevor Romain Foundation is a project that I am most proud to be a part of. They work with the USO and help provide support and comfort to military children and their families.

I still fear for my daughter because if a child did this to her, you'll never know what she'll do again.

What was unique about it was that we never had a kidnapping where there were witnesses and someone at gunpoint took the child in front of other children.

Ellen Galinsky

What Fred is so wonderful at doing is to help children understand those fears, but not to say, 'They don't exist; Oh, don't worry, it will all be fine.' That doesn't really acknowledge that the child is afraid.

We teach the child about his own strengths and weaknesses, and we give words they need for the things they need to work on,

We just love this child and we want to keep him. Unfortunately (the discrimination) is so obvious. It's a sin in 2006 it is such an issue.

We were pleased when it turned out the child was unharmed. Probably what happened is the person wanted to take the car, saw the child inside and thought better of it.

What suits your child might not suit another child, so it's your choice.

Ray Davies

What struck me was that it was more like the family Christmas I enjoyed as a child growing up in London. Thanksgiving is a time for sharing and even though they throw up their eyes as though it were a chore, family members traditionally gather for a reunion at the house of the oldest relative.

We look to see if a child has been injured; the condition of the home; the strength of the family. We would be assessing the whole situation.

We had this kind of camaraderie - you know, children of the Sixties! But he's gone Republican. Easy Rider is a Republican!