Famous Quotes & Sayings

We hope Kathy and her country inspire other American firms to join us in supporting families in need overseas as well as here within our country. Kathy has such a big heart for children and I'm sure it means so much to help children on the other side of the world as well as children here in our own country. We thank her for her continual support of hungry children worldwide.

We were just people interested in getting at some truth and educating our children teaching them how to think and giving them the facts so that they could make informed decisions.

Dick Gephardt

Today, we got the teachers, and now we must come back with a new Congress and get the (improved buildings). We are thrilled that our children are going to have a better education.

We don't have athletes, or movie stars or other celebrities that the children can look up to.

Erma Bombeck

Children make your life important.

Henning Mankell

For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.

Hanna Rosin

Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.

John Adams

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

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.

We are responding to what parents have said is an appropriate food environment for younger children while they are in school.

We are really lucky to have Bev here with us. The children really like her and she is doing a great job.

Political feelings are much less independently chosen than people realize. Children mold their parents.

John Boehner

Poll after poll shows that the American people don't want marriage to be redefined by judges today and for our children tomorrow.

Sathya Baba

Only dedicated mothers can offer to the nation children who will strive for a great future for the country.

Louis MacNeice

Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated.

Ted Forrest

Nearly 2 million children depend on our efforts to protect them from disease, from the effects of conflict and to provide opportunities for schooling.

On the one hand, it's nasty to see it because you see what's going on. On the other hand, there are going to be a lot of happy women and children tonight because this is the first time we've had some men come out (in a while).

One of the goals is to have 92 percent of the children in permanent brick-and-mortar seats. Currently, we are running an elementary school with 76 percent of children in permanent seats. By slowing down progress for the goal, you actually save some money.

Julie Gerberding

One of the most significant concerns from a public health perspective is that we know a lot of children who are overweight grow up to be overweight or obese adults, and thus are at greater risk for some major health problems.

I wouldn't want parents to think that they're putting their children at a disadvantage (if they don't do it). It may raise their IQ but do your children need their IQ raised?

I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.

Victor Borge

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

Michael Newdow

Imagine every morning if the teachers had the children stand up, place their hands over their hearts, and say, 'We are one nation that denies God exists,

I lost my child. Her children lost their mother. Her father lost a daughter. Her grandmother lost a grandchild.

Cindy Sheehan

I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.

Ezra Taft Benson

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

J. J. Johnson

I have a dream, ... that one day I won't be standing here talking about all the children who have died in the streets.

Mike Medavoy

I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere.

Mariella Frostrup

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

I have a 6-year-old daughter from Roderick and a 6-month-old daughter. He is very good to his children -- all of his children and we do a lot of family things together.

Sam Childers

I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

Mary Ellen Mark

If I'm in an unusual or extreme social environment, I always want to know what it's like to grow up there and experience it as normal, everyday life. And I want to know what sort of adults these children are going to turn into.

I feel very sorry for innocent children who through no fault of their own find themselves undocumented. But not going to college is not a passport to failure. We have to set some rules. We can't educate the whole world.