Quotes About Children

Despite football being my job, it's also good fun and it's a way that children enjoy themselves.

Mother and Dad were destined to have a gaggle of children. We would not have been complete if they had stopped at two or four or even six. Nine of us we had to be.

A country which does not create children is destined to die.

When kids are really little, they destroy everything.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

I care about the children of Detroit.

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.

You want your kids to be developing at the right level, and everyone says, 'They'll be fine, they'll get there.' But you get concerned. You just want to make sure there's nothing else.

Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States.

I am devoted to my two children, who are far and away more important to me than anything.

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

When everything kind of hit the fan, my dad married Jo Anne, and suddenly there were five kids from the Ripleys and five kids from the Doughertys. Then my dad and Joanne had a baby. I usually have to make a diagram.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

When I'm in San Diego, it's carpools and making dinner and getting the kids to bed. It's real life.

We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.

Lots of kids don't have active lives and good diets.

We love our children to experience different cultures, and we had media opportunities over in Japan and China and so we took our whole family over there.

'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.

I can easily tap into the feeling of being a mother and the feeling of, you always want what's best for your kids. And that's where most parents come from.

We do ballet dancing, Irish dancing, Scottish, jazz, tap - whatever country we're in or whatever culture that we'd like to present to the children.

All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings', fantasies.

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.