Quotes About Children

The children took turns with the news. They told Aunt Jane all about the fire and meeting Mr. Carter again.

Mr. Carter spoke, "I think your grandfather will be glad to help. I can go to Greenfield and tell him the whole story." He looked at his watch and got up quickly. "Good-by, children, and the best of luck." In one minute he was gone. Benny said, "Mystery men work fast, don't they?

The children will go back to school. Sam and Annie can move into this house. Maggie can stay happily with Jane. And best of all, I have a sister again.

The children will go back to school. Sam and Annie can move into this house.

for Benny, J for Jessie, V for Violet, H for Henry, and G for grandfather

Gertrude Chandler Warner

An exciting summer began for the four Alden children with the bang of a door.

He watched the children in the small playground, running, shouting, laughing, chasing each other. They were so full of life and energy, and he felt suddenly very lonely.

I had this chronic hyperactivity and an inability to focus, so I was forever being moved to another class, with a much smaller group of children - some of them about 18. If I was asked to read a paragraph, this white wall would go up in my head. Still now, I read very slowly and can rarely work out a tip.

Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.

And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.

I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.

Every day, families in Africa go without food and water, never knowing when their next meal might be; but we can change that if we all work together. In order to make a difference, every purchase of my new energy shot, Street King, will provide a meal for a child in need.

I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.

Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.

There are new children arriving and trying to reach our lucky country every day, and I hope that we can all work together to help them find their dream, too.

There are a lot of blessings from being a big family, but there's also a lot more work. My kids understand that we are a team and we have to work together, so I don't do it all by myself.

To my mind, when the Partition happened, the generation of my parents worked to ensure livelihood and better life for their children.

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.

Mom worked with autistic children.

The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'