Quotes about children
children cancer boards
I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them. Kirsten Vangsness
children two white
Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president, each brought to the White House a fashionable and accomplished First Lady, two adorable young children and scene-stealing pets. Kitty Kelley
children thinking people
I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies. Kirstie Alley
children taken thinking
I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those follow-up cases. Kim Edwards
children father son
Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like a wrist band, something that might easily slip off and disappear. She had read about people – where? she could not remember this either – who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to be not yet of the earth, suspended still between two worlds.
children thinking years
The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expectation that love will be unconditional, but obviously it's not - even after living with someone for years. Kim Gordon
children mean trouble
I didn’t mean now,” he protested. “I’m not going to raise the child. I’m having enough trouble with Rachel. Kim Harrison
children real home
No," she said firmly. "I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we built. I don't want you with me. You aren't done. You see too far ahead. You need to make the world in your thoughts a real one that our children can fly in." - Matalina to Jenks
children believe party
It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party. Kerry Healey
children ifs-and giving
The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it. Kerri Walsh
children athlete who-i-am
But they've [my children] made me better. They hold me more accountable for who I am and who I aspire to be, and they make me want to be better. And that's not just as a mommy, but as a woman and as an athlete.
children smart teenager
I love the complication of the kids in the characters' lives. I love that these two people are very capable in all these ways. They're so trained. They're kind of deadly. They're smart and vicious at times, but I love that they're undone by a teenager, like we all are. We're all incensed and undone by the ungratefulness of a child, and I love that it matters so greatly to them, in a way that it matters to every parent. Teenagers are going to do that no matter where you live or who you are. Keri Russell
children my-children
I would not let my children act when they are young!
children book reading
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.
children imagination way
The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read. Ken Spillman
children humorous parenting
Always obey your parents - when they are present. Mark Twain
children effort parent
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
children fall cat
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)
children believe law
As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable. Mary Robinson
children winter snow
The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child, Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.
children noble politician
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Mary Schmich
children divorce wedding-anniversary
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
children space wife
I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space. Mary Roach
children growing-up moving
The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many. Mary Roberts Rinehart
children men thinking
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child...
children grandchildren our-children
Our children are not going to be just "our children" Mary Calderone
children husband wife
Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
children responsibility moon
... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.
children perfection parent
But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.
children growing-up broken
Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.
children reading hunting
Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it. Martin Gardner
children book doe
The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.
children inspire film
I hope I inspire children to make films. Martin Freeman