Famous Quotes & Sayings

Delia Ephron

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be-they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

Children and the elderly make over 50% of the people who receive food from food banks.

Children and teens are surrounded by unhealthy options.

Jean Cocteau

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie

Children and families will have the opportunity to leave their personal mark on the museum and truly make it their own place.

Joanna Lumley

In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?

Mary Ford

I'm the voice for those children who do not have a voice - no matter what race they are.

Marisa Tomei

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

Carol Bellamy

I'm now meeting children who are telling me 'I am the first child in my family NOT to be able to get an education.'

Laura Hall

I like the interest that middle school children show, ... I love watching children when they discover information on their own.

Spike Lee

I'm blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.

I personally feel we would be shooting a negative message to those parents with children with disabilities. Research is clear. Early intervention is money well-spent, particularly when you are dealing with at-risk populations.

Maurice Sendak

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

If you don't have a pool in Las Vegas, you have to put your children in the icebox.

Blanche Lincoln

If we are to give working mothers, fathers and their children an opportunity to live the American dream we must invest in their future.

I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

Roger Clemens

I know my immediate plans are I'll go back to Florida. My children are on spring break, so I know immediately what I'm going to do. It doesn't matter when I step away. I will miss competing, but I won't be too far from the game.

I have three children, a daughter Caroline by my first husband, and two sons by Mark Elvin. All now are over 35, grown up with children of their own.

I heard many parents complain that their children have lost interest in study after they were intoxicated by such websites.

I heard children cry, families scream. Some children were yelling for their mothers and fathers.

Jason Reitman

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

I haven't heard back from those particular beauticians. It's sad when you see people volunteer to help poor children, but they select which poor children to help.

Richard Riley

I have said that if every parent read with their children at least 30 minutes a night, it would really revolutionize education in this country, ... Early Edition.

Mike DeWine

I put a lot of emphasis on children's issues. Children are many times ignored because they don't vote, and they don't have lobby groups.

Britt Robertson

I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time.

David Beckham

I'm personally not prepared to put my children in that situation,

I'm just frustrated by teachers and their lack of patience for children like him.

Laura Bush

I miss teaching. I love teaching. And I have the opportunity, because I visit schools all the time, to still read with children and work with children.

If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.

If men see other men who are good examples, maybe they'll follow. Then the children will be winners.

If I won the Lottery I would definitely just spend my time with my children and do up old houses. I've lived in my current house for 15 years and I'm still finding things that I want to do to it.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

David Blunkett

I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face.