Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

Ehud Barak

The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.

Edward Abbey

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

Edward Abbey

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

Aristotle

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Ben Kingsley

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

Ed O'Brien

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

Elizabeth Bishop

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

Elizabeth Edwards

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

Elizabeth Edwards

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

Deepak Chopra

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

Dirk Benedict

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as Gods children.

Dave Pelzer

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

Dave Ramsey

This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

Dave Ramsey

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

David Neeleman

And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.

Do we want our children to be debating the Confederate flag in 10 years? ... I don't want that for my children, or yours.

Do we have two standards of military justice? ... One for those with children and one without?

Don't let your children set up the computer. That is like giving them the keys to the car.

Don't send children to school. We have not been notified when the protest will end.

Currently, there are 19 nurses who have children enrolled in the center.

Cricket in Greece has prospects, but more money is needed, ... The children don't get to train very much. All they want to do is play a bit, nothing more.

Mark Kennedy

As I help my children get ready for a new school year, I often think about how education has played such an important role in my family.

And those children were so precious - and so good.

And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: / The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.

And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.

Ray Haynes

Engaging in social experimentation with our children is not the role of the legislature,

Emotional, psychological, mental, you are abusing our children by doing this the way you're doing it.

During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.

Donna Shalala

Each day, 10 children and teens are killed by firearms, and that is 10 too many, ... However, it is a significant decrease from four years earlier. This indicates that violence prevention efforts are showing results.