Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Scott Card

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

Orson Scott Card

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Orson Scott Card

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

Orson Scott Card

She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children.” “Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew.” “They were delicious.

Ram Dass

So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for a partner, cutting bread for one of the children, collecting the mail for the person at the next desk, holding the coat for someone at a restaurant.

We were really surprised because he'd been so abused, but he loves children and people.

We don't need to be encouraging children to have kids and find a loophole in order to get married.

We can't send our children into higher learning or the work force without up-to-date technology skills.

We condition our children to like stereotyped children's food but left to their own devices children like things like curries.

We concluded that it's highly unlikely that middle ear disease had any impact on children's later development, ... Children are pretty resilient, and it's not as though there's no hearing. They might be turning up the TV or parents might have to speak louder, but these children aren't deaf. When their hearing gets better, they make up for the temporary loss.

We don't want to force them to move their children if they don't want to.

We don't want this to happen again. Something needs to be done about the way the police handle and mishandle children while they're in their custody.

We have been seeing the devastation on children and on families at a record pace,

We have been able to start a program for elementary school children with TUSD.

We have grandparents, live-in lovers, step-parents, persons that are not even biologically related to children that are raising them. We need to have some understandings as to what standards we are going to use to determine which rights they have.

We have good success with them (Noah's Ark). It's a great facility that serves children well.

We have gained 105 children in that period (last six months). Just since Christmas we've gained 79 children.

We're all God's children ... none of us come from any place but God,

When parents read to their children, their children are better readers. If parents don't have literacy skills or have never been read to, or they have never found joy in a book, it's really difficult for them to make that transition.

Rick Perry

When our work is done, parents won't measure our success by how much money we spend, but whether more children learn.

When other children may have given up because of obstacles placed before them, these children did not. These students have overcome some obstacle, whether learning issues or personal issues at home.

We wouldn't have had children (if we knew). It's too risky. One out of four? There's no way that I would risk it.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.

Kurt Vonnegut

Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

Kurt Vonnegut

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

Kurt Vonnegut

The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

Lois Lowry

I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.

Vandana Shiva

I saw some women had written that the cloning of Dolly was wonderful since it showed that women could have children without men. They didn’t even understand that this was the ultimate ownership of women—of embryos, of eggs, of bodies—by a few men with capital and control techniques, that it wasn’t freedom from men but total control by men.

Vandana Shiva

The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.

Vandana Shiva

Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who don’t have enough money to buy food should end up paying for their drinking water. That is going to be the kind of situation in which you will get more child labor. You will get more exploitation of women. You’re going to get an absolutely exploitative economy as the very basis of living becomes a source of capital accumulation and corporate growth. In fact, the chief of Coca-Cola in India said: “Our biggest market in India comes from the fact that there is no drinking water left. People will have to buy Coca-Cola.

Barbra Streisand

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

William Shakespeare

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

Katherine Anne Porter

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.