Quotes About Children

It's funny, my kids and I live together, and I have a lot of actor friends. So my kids think everyone is on television every now and again, since everyone they know pops up here, but there's a whole rap of things they won't watch until they're 16 or 17.

A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.

My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television show called 'M.I. High,' which I ended up doing for two years.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

I believe in Father Frost. But not too deeply. But anyway, you know, I'm not one of those people who are able to tell the kids that Father Frost does not exist.

Kids make the best audiences. They're like drunk people - they don't mind telling you exactly what they think.

Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.

Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.

Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.

I was happy just being at home looking after the kids. There was always plenty to do, and I didn't feel like doing any telly.

Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

There are far too many children in America in need of a loving home who are shuttled between temporary homes and group shelters that fail to provide the stable, nurturing environment all children deserve.

I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.

Fine, but what about your wife? she'd asked. Is she going to have a fucking problem? I hope not, Kins had said. With three kids under the age of eight, that's about the last fun thing we do together. She

You need to find a way to work together as parents. You have to find a way to love your kids more than you hate each other.

In divorce, children learn a painful lesson about love: Romantic love can end. But they also need to learn this: Parental love never ends.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Strike had never wanted children; it was one of the things on which he and Charlotte had always agreed, and it had been one of the reasons other relationships over the years had foundered. Lucy deplored his attitude, and the reasons he gave for it; she was always miffed when he stated life aims that differed from hers, as though he were attacking her decisions and choices.

Soul murder, the psychiatrists call it, the sexual violation of children. Unimaginably small boys. Boys whose heads do not reach to their father's waists. Girls who are no more than infants. Boys and girls whose lives are ineradicably violated. Whose trust and innocence are lost to them forever. (208)