Famous Quotes & Sayings

The other part of the program features things the children haven't been exposed to at home or within the community.

There is no telling how marriages and lives were saved and how many children were spared of the consequences of gambling because of the work I did, Now, if I had known then what I know now, I would not have done that work.

There is simply no moral, ethical or social justification for marketing junk food to children. Children have a right to grow up, and parents have the right to raise them, without being undermined by commercial interests.

We do not know her risk around children,

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

We felt such a void in our lives without children and now it has been filled.

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 don't want individual children to be singled out, whether their scores are good or bad.

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.

Lisa Ling

Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.

Orson Scott Card

That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.

Orson Scott Card

There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.

Orson Scott Card

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

Orson Scott Card

I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.

Orson Scott Card

That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. … Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature.

Orson Scott Card

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

Orson Scott Card

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third.

Charles Manson

You eat meat and you kill things that are better than you are, and then you say how bad, and even killers, your children are. You made your children what they are....

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.

Robert Kiyosaki

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.

Robert Kiyosaki

Fail is a verb not a noun, most people think that when they fail, they become a noun and call themselves failures. People have to learn from their mistakes just as children learn to ride bicycles by falling off bicycles. Mistakes can be priceless if we are willing to learn from them because the price to becoming rich is the willingness to make mistakes and learn from them without blaming or justifying

Madonna Ciccone

I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me and I have a chunk of time when I'm a single woman living in my house for a miraculous week, I will get to write at different hours.

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.

Otto Rank

Fathers and Mothers! Honor your children and love them.

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

Georg Buchner

The Revolution is like Saturn - it eats its own children

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.

There's only God and Daniel that know where these children are.

Jon Glaser

There's nothing wrong with fame, but to seek out the spotlight just to be on TV for the sake of being on TV, and to put your children on there, I think, is especially disgusting.

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.