Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you see people happy and content with so little after they've lost so much, who can still find meaning and purpose, it makes our lives seem shallow sometimes. The children especially were always smiling. It was heartwarming to see; it gives you a whole new perspective.

Ben Affleck

It's wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money.

The only reason this is about race is because the school district has yet to do its job in educating children of color.

Wanna get to know God?...Get to know His Kids!

Oscar Arias

Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

Ban Ki-moon

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

The project will help teachers weave together supports for children literacy and social-emotional development in all classroom activities.

Dave Roberts

We have had several reports of children being shot by them.

We have very much personified these vehicles. We think of them as our children, because they have very human characteristics. They see, they move, they interact, they respond to our commands, and they think on their own.

Raquel Welch

Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?

The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in Kilnacrott and his Religious Superiors in the Norbertine Order.

A. S. Byatt

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps.

Adrian Peterson

I don't know any other job that the off-the-field issues - especially something personal like that - affects your job. But as far as the parenting lesson, no [I understood that]. To me it was so simple, it was a situation where I disciplined my child and it didn't turn out the way I wanted.

Adrian Rogers

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

Adam Beach

I'm not gonna fall. I'm tired of falling. I'm tired of seeing our people fall. I don't believe in failure. It's what we put in our minds and our hearts to succeed. And success isn't about money. Success isn't about the biggest house in the world. Success is about loving your family, taking care of your child.

Troy University has got 100 years of alumni, of people coming to school here and people sending their children here,

David Gemmell

Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

David Boaz

The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

David E. Kelley

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

David Elkind

Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.

David Ben-Gurion

If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.

Alison Gopnik

The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.

Jesus' sinless life was given as a gift to the world - the ultimate gift. Some would receive Him, and others wouldn't. Nonetheless, He continues to be our gift, and His life and death makes it possible for His children to receive eternal life with Him. That's a reason to give God glory.

Angelina Jolie

My children love Maleficent's voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Alan Ladd

Our children were trained to look after each other.

Anthony Hecht

It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

We need to say what sorts of Internet use are good for what kinds of children living in what kinds of contexts.

Anthony Browne

Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.

Billy Graham

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

Al Sharpton

My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.

LZ Granderson

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.