Quotes About Children

The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling out how to be part of my children's lives rather than shoehorning them into mine. But there's a risk that I'll overcompensate, of course.

We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.

If there's anything my kids have taught me, it's that my general belief in the good qualities of college athletics is alive and well.

To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.

If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.

Income inequality has made having kids, much like getting a quality college education, a rich person's privilege.

We - our children need a quality public education.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

Republicans need to define and present specific policies on how to eradicate poverty, help every child achieve a quality education, and lower the cost of increasing health premiums.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

I believe all children deserve quality health care.

We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.

I think it's important for the kids to spend quality time with their parents, and to see their parents happy and loving life, even if it so happens that they live apart. That's a lot better than having them stay together and be miserable.

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.

Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'

Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.

For a lot of children of immigrants, what happens is your parents want you to do something very linear that they can understand. I had an aptitude in sciences and never really questioned it.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a loving home.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.