Quotes About Children

I can't eradicate poverty, but at least for the people around me, I can help make sure no child is denied a dream.

As long as I am forbidden to see the MSPAP, my children will be forbidden to take the MSPAP.

I have been married to Russell Ford since 2002, and we have two children.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.

I love kids. I love - I love what they bring to us every day. I have a great fortune to be with kids in the wintertime, a whole lot. And I just - I think you can learn so much, and they're - it's easy to say that they're a hope, but they are.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

My wife and I are foster parents.

Growing up, my family was like an unofficial foster home. My dad was a judge and my mom was a director of a women and children's charity.

I am extremely active in the foster care crisis in this country. Everything that I do is pretty much with the end goal of trying to make a difference in the lives of the children in foster care.

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

The 'Maddox Jolie-Pitt' Foundation's work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.

As a documentary filmmaker, I couldn't afford to give my children the lifestyle I had in San Francisco growing up.

Work does come home with us, but home also comes to work. Our kids are regulars at Eventbrite's HQ in San Francisco.

To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting and not getting along.

I'm not much of a baby freak - I like them when they're older.

I spend my free time at home with my kids.

I think it doesn't really matter what you do for a career, that breakfast routine - get the kids ready, off to school and out the house - if you can have something in the fridge that you know and trust, and that you know your kids enjoy it then it makes your life so much easier.

Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.