Quotes About Children

If I am honored to serve as first lady, I will use that wonderful privilege to try to help people in our country who need it the most. One of the many causes dear to my heart is helping children and women.

Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning.

I believe in civil rights, but not in special privilege laws to allow flaunting homosexuals to become role models for children.

It's by far the most challenging responsibility I will ever experience but it's such a huge privilege being able to be a father.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

I have a very, very normal life. I really do - with the exception of being very lucky and privileged. I have two children, a dog, and a husband. We live in New York, the kids go to school, and we're fortunate that we have flexible schedules. I like that. That's what I want.

They eat clean, they don't drink sodas, they don't have fast food. My kids eat like pro athletes.

One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did.

The notion that those of us that are pro-life because we love children - is that so terrible? Really? Is that so terrible?

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.

It has always been my dream to open a school for the poor children in the city who drop out of school due to financial problems.

I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children. Does that make me a better mother than someone who cannot afford it? No, of course not.

When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child will proceed.

If children are given some real content, they can feel powerful with their own understanding of it. I think a movie like 'Indian in the Cupboard' will instruct them how to proceed as people. They can think about whether they would have done something the way a character did, how they would have felt about an event in the story.

Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.

There's absolutely no reason why we should continue poisoning our children's health with processed foods.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.

People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.