Quotes About Children

Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

Although I believe deeply that the Children's Health Insurance Program and the Community Health Center program are invaluable, I reject the notion that we cannot reauthorize these programs without plundering other equally vital programs.

Local school districts should be free to adapt their academic programs in ways appropriate for their community, but we cannot allow mindless budget shortfalls to force wrongheaded changes to our children's education.

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

We cannot expect systemic success when our teachers are underpaid and under-resourced, or when they split time being caretakers and counselors for our children as well.

I have three kids. Now they're all grown up, but when they were little, every time I would start a new project, they would say, 'So dad, are you making a movie we can watch or one we cannot watch?' That's the kind of stuff they would ask. People around me - family and friends - usually know when to watch and when not to watch.

We cannot continue leaving teachers behind but expecting them to lead the way for our children.

I have five children. There were four boys. The fifth, I got weak, and a girl came.

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.

I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.

Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

When you're working from home and you've got children, a big night out is going to Pizza Express down the road.

People always want to know what I fed my kids. I gave them real food, not frozen pizza.

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

I'm not proud of this, but I had a lot of misconceptions about American foster care. To me, foster care meant that a child would be placed with you, then taken away. I didn't want to go through all of that.

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.

I learned real fast that you need to have a plan of action when changing diapers, or it can get dicey fast.

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.