Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ada Leverson

It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Maslow

[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

Marco Rubio

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

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

Sophie Aldred

'Tree Fu Tom' is a truly interactive programme because it is designed to help children get up off the sofa and physically move, which is a very important part of children's development.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Lance Armstrong

Yeah. Sheryl and I are very happy. To me, when you have a relationship, you're happy and in love, children are a natural part of the equation,

When I leave the agency, I am going to continue working to keep families and children safe,

We need to teach our children to respect money and not worship it. We need to leave a financial legacy to the help the next generation.

Jennifer Dunn

We need to talk to our children after they get home from school, every night at the dinner table, on weekends to find out what they are thinking, what they are feeling. The solution is found with our children.

Margaret Fuller

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Hilda Solis

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor.

Harriet Harman

I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.

We had children lying everywhere. They had all been shot.

Hannah Storm

My birthmark essentially looks like I have a black eye. It isn't that bad, so you can imagine if it has been this big a part of my life, think of what it must be like for children with more serious birthmarks that cover half their face.

Lisa Vanderpump

I don't really care what others think of me. You're not going to please everybody. I care what I think and what my children and my husband thinks.

Martin O'Malley

The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.

We had two major benefactors that really made sure the women and children ... got their wish.

Ashley Smith

We wanted to give them something that would be a real eye opener. We wanted the children to see first hand how people pollute our environment and then let them get even more information here. We hope they will remember this the next time they go to throw a piece of paper on the ground.

We've got small children and sick and elderly people dying every day, small children being raped and killed, people running around with guns -- I'm scared for my life, my wife and my 5-year-old daughter's life,

We have children who grow up without ever seeing the Milky Way. It's sad.

Martin Seligman

We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.

With the very young ones, parents want the kids to learn to focus and pay attention. If you can't focus, you can't learn. Parents want these children to discover that learning is fun.

William Shakespeare

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

William Shakespeare

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

R. L. Stine

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

Surely there are common-sense reforms that we should, and must, take in order to keep our children and our communities safe. I take these recommendations very seriously, and will listen to the voices of my constituents to ensure I do everything I can to help prevent gun violence.

There was no drive because I wanted to become a great designer... I had two small children and a mother, and we all had to eat. That's the drive I had.

Paula Broadwell

I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward.

Helena Bonham Carter

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.

Tim Costello

While impoverished nations may need funding to help their police or their bureaucrats - it will do little if we don't also help desperately poor people feed or educate their children or stop them dying from preventable diseases or dirty drinking water.

With some parents' work schedules, some children might be here at the school for 11 hours.