Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Forrest

Nearly 2 million children depend on our efforts to protect them from disease, from the effects of conflict and to provide opportunities for schooling.

On the one hand, it's nasty to see it because you see what's going on. On the other hand, there are going to be a lot of happy women and children tonight because this is the first time we've had some men come out (in a while).

Jessye Norman

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

One of the goals is to have 92 percent of the children in permanent brick-and-mortar seats. Currently, we are running an elementary school with 76 percent of children in permanent seats. By slowing down progress for the goal, you actually save some money.

Julie Gerberding

One of the most significant concerns from a public health perspective is that we know a lot of children who are overweight grow up to be overweight or obese adults, and thus are at greater risk for some major health problems.

I wouldn't want parents to think that they're putting their children at a disadvantage (if they don't do it). It may raise their IQ but do your children need their IQ raised?

I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.

Victor Borge

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

I would hate to see a tree come down on a little kid ---- a little child ---- all because we didn't make the right choice up here.

Michael Newdow

Imagine every morning if the teachers had the children stand up, place their hands over their hearts, and say, 'We are one nation that denies God exists,

I lost my childhood. That's where I kept all my personal scrapbooks and pictures. They can't be replaced.

I lost my child. Her children lost their mother. Her father lost a daughter. Her grandmother lost a grandchild.

Cindy Sheehan

I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.

Ezra Taft Benson

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

J. J. Johnson

I have a dream, ... that one day I won't be standing here talking about all the children who have died in the streets.

Mike Medavoy

I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere.

Mariella Frostrup

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

I have a 6-year-old daughter from Roderick and a 6-month-old daughter. He is very good to his children -- all of his children and we do a lot of family things together.

Sam Childers

I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

Mary Ellen Mark

If I'm in an unusual or extreme social environment, I always want to know what it's like to grow up there and experience it as normal, everyday life. And I want to know what sort of adults these children are going to turn into.

I feel very sorry for innocent children who through no fault of their own find themselves undocumented. But not going to college is not a passport to failure. We have to set some rules. We can't educate the whole world.

Karen Hughes

I feel the pain that you are feeling, ... It is impossible to say that the plight of women was better under Saddam Hussein . Women were tortured, they had their children tortured in front of them.

Bernard Berenson

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

For schools like this, cooking fresh food every day would be impossible because the facilities we have got are set up to reheat food. It would be great if the government were to give us the money for a new kitchen, to make fresh food for 380 children each day, but I'm not so sure that is going to happen.

I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood.

Bennie Thompson

I don't understand it. It's clear that the child should be in the custody of his father,

If a child refused to eat, the instinct of most parents is to worry because they're concerned the child will be hungry,

Bobby Orr

If a child is enjoying himself or herself, they'll listen. While they're playing and listening, there's so much we can teach them.

Michael Williams

I don't think it's fair for me to be held responsible for children who are not mine.

Dick Cheney

Forty-nine percent increase in funding for elementary and secondary education under No Child Left Behind, ... That's a lot of money even by Massachusetts' standards.

Charles Spurgeon

God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod

Today is an important day for children who have been victimized by sexual predators, ... SB 138 protects these young innocents from further trauma and intimidation in the courtroom.

Today is a great day in the state of North Carolina. The greatest lottery winners will be our children.