Quotes About Children

I've been doing a lot of children's dramas, but I really wanted to move into more gritty stuff.

It's absolutely amazing to me that anyone allowed their children to watch 'The Ren & Stimpy Show' in the '90s; it's dark, gross, nihilistic, and absolutely bizarre.

Exposing children to nature, especially at an early age, keeps them grounded.

When I see children in New Delhi, babies walking around in no diapers and their mother is in a corner putting up bricks, it gives you a sense of being grounded.

Children need continuity as they grow and learn.

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

It's so important to spend your free time with little people. They grow up before you know it. Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

I'm never going to make apologies for trying to create a kind of society and a kind of community where my kids will be proud to grow up in.

I'm just excited to watch my kids grow up.

Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm.

I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!

I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

We have four grown children and five grandchildren... so far! So, as you can imagine, family is extremely important to us.

I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.

Children succeed when grown-ups care about them.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

When you break finances down in a way that kids can understand, it creates financial literacy that grows with them as they become adults.

Parents get worried that kids will hold grudges. But they just don't.

People really seemed to think of me as a guardian angel. People would bring their children before me for a blessing or something.

I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it.