Quotes about children
children men media
The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence. William J. Clinton
children military opportunity
If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.
children nuclear proud
I'm proud to say that there is not a single Russian nuclear missile pointed at an American child.
children future safety
There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.
children war oil
...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.
children freedom thinking
The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.
children caring opportunity
I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family; between earning a decent wage and caring for a child.
children gun bridges
We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.
children profound climate
Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.
children support administration
All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.
children school college
The Information Age is, first and foremost, an education age, in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime. Last year, from this podium, I said that education has to be our highest priority. I have something to say to every family listening to us tonight: Your children can go on to college.... Because of the things that have been done, we can make college as universal in the 21st century as high school is today. And, my friends, that will change the face and future of America.
children may want
If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
children patriotic presidential
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
children men thinking
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion. William James
children reading sky
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
children angel journey
The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub! William Gilmore Simms
children fiction information
When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it. William Gibson
children technology cyberspace
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
children thinking age
Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?" I would even ask others, "Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think?" And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state. Will Cuppy
children book years
If you're flying with your children, it's best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family. Will Ferrell
children men heritage
If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children. Will Durant
children fun book
Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to have familial love be as important as romantic love, and to show that love can go through fire and darkness - not unchanged, because experiences like that change everyone - but never faltering Sarah Rees Brennan
children autism inspire
Children with special needs inspire a special love. Sarah Palin
children joy challenges
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.
children real holiday
Some people want to give money to their children, buy houses, go on a holiday - whatever it is that they want to invest in. This particular journey has been something that I wanted to do most of my life, but there was no real opportunity to do so. Sarah Brightman
children growing-up ideas
I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.
children grandmother secret
Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all. Sarah Addison Allen
children stories paper
I cry all the time. It's more like when didn't you cry. My friends are like, 'Oh God, she's sobbing again.' I cry if I'm happy, sad, normal... What really gets me is when I read a sad story about a child in the paper, especially at the moment with my hormones raging. Sara Cox
children long important
I remember being on Atonement and it felt very right to be there. There was so much excitement every day. I remember very vividly how it felt to be a child on a film set, and that is actually really important to hold on to for as long as you continue to make films. Saoirse Ronan
children thinking losing
I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.
children thinking losing-a-child
I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.
children actors young
I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
children men childhood
Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible. Samuel Rogers