Quotes About Children

If we're gonna get past our our racial differences, it's gonna come from our kids, but they have to be together to do that.

When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they can't believe it. I mean, they can understand how the kid left to his own devices might do that, but they can't imagine that parents would allow that to happen.

My wife's Italian, so pasta is a go-to for my eldest - he loves a good pasta. My middle child is a scavenger, he'll just eat whatever.

I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.

I guess its the same with all children really, they have this sort of pathetic longing to be like their parents were.

'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

I have very little patience with children.

I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.

The biggest lesson my kids have taught me is to find the joy in little things, along with a healthy dose of patience.

What Mr Rogers was offering to children were lessons we all need in our world right now: patience, kindness, acceptance and true self-reflection.

Children are part of the natural pattern of life. For centuries people have been having children and going to work. You get on with it, that's what life's about.

If you have children and you hear about a child being kidnapped, it makes you really appreciate your own children. It makes you want to spend time with them. But I think anything that shakes you out of your daily patterns in a good thing.

Using kids as pawns in a divorce is awful.

Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.

Our children shouldn't be saddled with trillions of dollars of more debt and forced to pay for Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi's extreme agenda.

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

Most of our children have access to Internet-accessible technology, yet most of us are actually not paying much attention to what they're doing online.

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.

There's no greater cause in the world than finding cures for our sickest children. And no one does that better than St. Jude because its families never have to worry about paying the hospital for anything.

Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other.

You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When you call your children and you say 'How are you?' - and what you are really asking is, 'Do you still have your job? And are you able to make the mortgage payment?', That resonates across the state, not across party lines.