The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Votes: 1
Peter De VriesThere is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. Votes: 1
Elizabeth BowenThe children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children. Votes: 1
Antonio PorchiaChildren, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. Votes: 1
Honore de BalzacI think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children. Votes: 1
Amanda PeetThe best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well. Votes: 1
Juliette BinocheAt a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellIt ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.
Josephine Dodge Daskam BaconMaleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting. Votes: 3 Angelina Jolie
The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids. Votes: 3 Danielle Steel
It helps parents to feel better if we remind them of our failures with them! And how they turned out just fine despite our imperfections.... We never get over needing nurturing parents. The more we comfort our own adult children, the more they can comfort our grandchildren. Votes: 4 Eda LeShan
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Votes: 1 Harry S Truman
We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel. Votes: 1 Carmen Dell'Orefice
You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out. Votes: 5 Temple Grandin
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. Votes: 3 Mark Haddon
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin. Votes: 1 Olympia Dukakis
Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of Mormon and bearing testimony spontaneously in the home. Votes: 1 David A. Bednar
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced. Votes: 2 Judith Viorst
The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children. Votes: 2 Joseph B. Wirthlin
Mexico has shelters, which care for children trying to cross the border, who have no company with them. Votes: 4 Enrique Pena Nieto
Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely. Votes: 2 Tim Johnson
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Votes: 5 Frederick Douglass
Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost. Votes: 1 David A. Bednar
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death. Votes: 2 Jack Black
Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating. Votes: 3 Robin Wright
I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren. Votes: 3 Mitt Romney
The first Law of Heaven is obedience, and it should be the first law of every home. It is the foundation of an orderly home, a successful family, and the successful lives of the children. The wife is the key. Votes: 1 Helen Andelin
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before. Votes: 3 Lafcadio Hearn
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. Votes: 6 Walt Disney
When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't. Votes: 1 Ezekiel Emanuel
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin. Votes: 1 Olympia Dukakis
In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering. Votes: 1 Malala Yousafzai
I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love. Votes: 1 Enid Blyton
Game of Thrones' cares about children. Children are heirs. There's no hemming and hawing about how they're desensitized to violence or they cost too much to send to college. They're a blessing - in many ways the only blessing - and even the evil ones have parents who love them. Votes: 1 Ned Vizzini
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. Votes: 1 Brian Tracy
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units. Votes: 1 David Almond
And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living. Votes: 1 Warren Jeffs
If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important. Votes: 3 Roald Dahl
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework? Votes: 1 Henry Louis Gates
I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me Votes: 3 Ian Botham
I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal. Votes: 1 Francois Englert
I don't tell my children, 'If you're not good, you're going to hell.' I tell my children that God will be there for them when they struggle. That's the God I believe in. Votes: 1 Marie Osmond
I think the arts are very important for children growing up. Votes: 5 Stephen Schwartz
I didn't have children, but I never wanted children. Votes: 2 Iris Apfel
Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly. Votes: 1 Sergei Lavrov
See the world with the innocence of children. Approach the world with the daring of children. Love the world with the readiness of children. Heal the world with the purity of children. Change the world with the wisdom of children. Votes: 3 Neale Donald Walsch
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? Votes: 5 George W. Bush
Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home. Votes: 3 Aretha Franklin
Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home. Votes: 1 Aretha Franklin
I believe in love, children and being a good person. Votes: 4 Leighton Meester
People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life. Votes: 1 John Walsh
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. Votes: 1 Edward VIII
We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham. Votes: 3 King Hussein I
I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity. Votes: 3 Lou Doillon
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. Votes: 1 Hannah More
If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God. Votes: 2 Sri Chinmoy
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Votes: 3 Helen Keller
The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children. Votes: 1 Ezra Taft Benson
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. Votes: 1 Don Lemon
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? Votes: 5 Karl Kraus
I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant. Votes: 4 Jan Brett
We children learned responsibility automatically. Votes: 2 James Earl Jones
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. Votes: 1 Matt Blunt
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books. Votes: 1 A. S. Byatt
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books. Votes: 1 A. S. Byatt
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books. Votes: 1 A. S. Byatt
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. Votes: 1 Maria Montessori
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin. Votes: 1 Olympia Dukakis
Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. Votes: 1 Alice Miller
We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services. Votes: 3 Jenny McCarthy
The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't. Votes: 3 Philip Pullman
My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. Votes: 3 Michael J. Fox
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read! Votes: 4 Mitch Hedberg
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. Votes: 3 Shel Silverstein
I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them. Votes: 3 Kirsten Vangsness
Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed. Votes: 4 Caroll Spinney
Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. Votes: 2 Doris Day
A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born. Votes: 2 Iyanla Vanzant
I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture. Votes: 1 Quentin Blake
If I have children, after school they'll always feel happy energy in the home. Votes: 2 Li Na
Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth. Votes: 1 Joseph B. Wirthlin
Whether they hail from different cultures, countries or faiths, children are children. Votes: 2 Kimberly Quinn
American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of obesity foreshadows an explosion in degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer waiting to erupt in our children's future. Together we can stop this tragedy from ever happening. Votes: 3 Joel Fuhrman
Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children. Votes: 3 Ziggy Marley
All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by. Votes: 3 Barack Obama
It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view. Votes: 3 Padraic Colum
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Votes: 1 Denis Waitley
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Votes: 2 Aldous Huxley
I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years. Votes: 2 Max Muller
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. Votes: 1 Jean Piaget
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. Votes: 2 William Bennett
From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal interactions with caregivers. Votes: 1 David Perlmutter
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. Votes: 5 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. Votes: 1 Lynda Barry
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness. Votes: 2 David Blunkett
God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing. Votes: 4 Willie Aames
I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids. Votes: 4 David Cross
No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock. Votes: 4 Dave Grohl
Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted. Votes: 4 Ezra Taft Benson
Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home. Votes: 1 Steven Wright
Cooking with your kids and engaging them in hands-on activities are two ways to begin to educate children about the healthy eating, and kick start the important task to help change how the younger generation looks at food and nutrition. Votes: 4 Marcus Samuelsson
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. Votes: 1 Ursula K. Le Guin
I would love to get married, first of all, from my children's perspective. People don't think of children when they think of gay marriage, but I do have children, and for them to see their family validated as other families are validated and protected by our government, yes. Votes: 3 Judy Gold
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at 'proper' books, which means books without pictures. Votes: 1 Anthony Browne
I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories. Votes: 1 Bobby McFerrin
Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different. Votes: 1 Ray Liotta
My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do. Votes: 1 Brene Brown
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. Votes: 3 Sandra Lee
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Votes: 1 Victor Hugo
All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children. Votes: 2 Wendy Kopp
Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s. Votes: 5 Annette Funicello
Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe. Votes: 2 T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on. Votes: 3 Tracey Ullman
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else. Votes: 3 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities. Votes: 1 Daisaku Ikeda
I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading. Votes: 4 Malorie Blackman
What I like doing most is making children laugh. Votes: 1 Norman Wisdom
I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are. Votes: 1 Jill Scott
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. Votes: 2 Aeschylus
When I am in Madrid, I just like to see my friends and walk around the city. I go to the school where my mum works and help out. My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children. Votes: 2 Maria Valverde
One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another. Votes: 2 James E. Faust
Children can be disciplined with love. Votes: 2 Gordon B. Hinckley
Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety. Votes: 1 Joseph B. Wirthlin
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. Votes: 0 Shirley Jackson
Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential. Votes: 2 Pope Francis
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children. Votes: 1 LeVar Burton
Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies. Votes: 2 Queen Rania of Jordan
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. Votes: 1 P. J. O'Rourke
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. Votes: 3 Gloria Steinem
I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour. Votes: 4 Quentin Blake
Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted. Votes: 4 Charles Bass
The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died. Votes: 3 Anne Sexton
I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me. Votes: 3 Bill Watterson
To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too. Votes: 1 Rick Riordan
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult. Votes: 2 Maria Montessori
I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren. Votes: 6 Brock Yates
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. Votes: 2 Albert Einstein
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child. Votes: 1 Michael Jackson
I have wanted to have children. I do want to have children. Votes: 2 Kevin Spacey
I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all. Votes: 4 Steve Jobs
When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage. Votes: 2 Rand Paul
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. Votes: 2 Erik Erikson
Education is very important to me, as is helping children. Votes: 4 Mark Teixeira
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. Votes: 2 Jeff Miller
Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children. Votes: 2 Brian May
I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren. Votes: 2 Barbara Bush
Freedom has never been free... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them. Votes: 2 Medgar Evers
There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children. Votes: 1 Rick Warren
Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers. Votes: 2 Carol Bellamy
A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust. Votes: 2 Robert Casey
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. Votes: 1 Rita Dove
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. Votes: 1 Tom Vilsack
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. Votes: 1 Barack Obama
That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct. Votes: 4 Nancy Jo Sales
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Votes: 3 Martin Luther King, Jr.
Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system. Votes: 3 Dirk Kempthorne
I have a lot of respect and love for children's books. Votes: 3 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Freedom has never been free... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them. Votes: 2 Medgar Evers
We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become. Votes: 2 Alistair Begg
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way. Votes: 2 Barbara Bush
I have to meet someone who loves children and who loves ex-husbands and implants. Votes: 3 Pamela Anderson
Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career. Votes: 4 Jada Pinkett Smith
It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesn't happen very often. Votes: 1 Amy Bloom
Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else. Votes: 2 Josh Turner
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison. Votes: 2 Tim Allen
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison. Votes: 1 Tim Allen
I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey. Votes: 2 Parker Stevenson
I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids. Votes: 1 Gina McKee
The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers. Votes: 3 Ella Reeve Bloor
Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like 'All My Children'. Votes: 3 Drake
I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty. Votes: 3 Andrea Parker
We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese. Votes: 3 Jeanne Kohl-Welles
I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children. Votes: 3 Lewis Gordon Pugh
So, my brother and I, over the last two years, went back through Scripture and pulled every (passage) we could in relation to parenting children, guarding their hearts, teaching them, loving them, being patient. And then we worked through 40 principles and wrote The Love Dare for Parents. Votes: 3 Alex Kendrick
Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance. Votes: 4 Zachary Quinto
The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. Votes: 2 Mac Thornberry
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. Votes: 2 Nick Cave
The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children. Votes: 2 Charles Bukowski
I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children. Votes: 2 Thomas S. Monson
The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties. Votes: 5 James T. Walsh
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it. Votes: 3 Mark Twain
In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes. Votes: 1 Jim Costa
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.' Votes: 3 Erma Bombeck
Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. Votes: 2 Ryan Phillippe
My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things. Votes: 3 Mary Engelbreit
Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books. Votes: 1 Michelle Magorian
One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place. Votes: 1 Eden Riegel
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. Votes: 2 Polly Toynbee
Perhaps one reason that many working parents do not agitate for collective reform, such as more governmental or corporate child care, is that the parents fear, deep down, that to share responsibility for child rearing is to abdicate it. Votes: 2 Faye J Crosby
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously. Votes: 2 Maggie Q
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake. Votes: 5 Anne M. Mulcahy
The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children. Votes: 2 Juan Williams
I love to bake, so I made vanilla bean and blueberry muffins for sick hospital children. Just kidding! All of that is true except the sick children part. Votes: 5 Sloane Crosley
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. Votes: 1 Rebecca MacKinnon
Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way. Votes: 2 Gary Numan
Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love. Votes: 4 Sarah Palin
Most gods have the morals of a spoiled child. Votes: 5 Robert A. Heinlein
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness. Votes: 1 Sloan Wilson
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. Votes: 6 Melissa Gilbert
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not. Votes: 1 Renzo Piano
Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries. Votes: 1 Carol Bellamy
Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would. Votes: 1 Manoj Bhargava
You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments. Votes: 4 Dave Ramsey
I think it's very important to teach your children to struggle on some level. Votes: 5 Kate Winslet
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. Votes: 6 Clarence Darrow
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. Votes: 1 Robert Bly
I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling. Votes: 4 Alison Gopnik
In the old days, trouble was kept in the family, which is still the best place for it, not that there's ever a best place for trouble. Why stir everything up again after that many years, with all concerned tucked, like tired children, so neatly into their graves? Votes: 3 Margaret Atwood
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb. Votes: 2 Robert Casey
Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts. Votes: 3 Brad Henry
Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety. Votes: 1 Joseph B. Wirthlin
I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents. Votes: 4 Gurinder Chadha
However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry. Votes: 1 Bob Filner
I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married. Votes: 4 Hugh Hefner
The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations. Votes: 4 Madeleine L'Engle
I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. Votes: 4 Dr. Seuss
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. Votes: 4 Thomas Szasz
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests. Votes: 1 Marvin Hamlisch
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. Votes: 4 Haim Ginott
When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?' Votes: 1 Sharon Stone
The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love. Votes: 1 Candace Bushnell