Quotes About Children

We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.

For our way-too-large population of homeless children, we can provide tutoring services so they can be ready for college.

Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get involved with charities that have to do with children or homelessness or education, or all of them together.

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

Arts can save children, no matter what's going on in their homes.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

There are so many kids out there that need to be adopted and need good homes. I definitely want to have my own but I also want to adopt for sure. I think it's very important to find these kids homes.

It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes.

I don't spend enough time with my children, but when I am with them, I like to help them with their homework - even though they know more than me!

People don't have a constitutional right to leave loaded guns lying around. And if they choose to do so - and a kid gets shot and killed because of it - it's not an accident. It's negligent homicide.

The reason I love kids so much is because they're so honest, so you know right away if they like you or they don't.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

There's an old actor's saying about how you don't work with children or animals. I disagree with both of them. Some of the best times I've ever had were working with kids because there's an honesty to them.

The Audrey you saw in her films and in her advocacy for children is who and what she really was and what, I think, we all sensed was an extraordinary honesty of emotion.

Tiggers don't like honey.

It's an honor to have kids. It's a responsibility.

In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing.

Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets.

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Since he was born, Mandy and I have hoped to give Blaine a brother or sister.

My songs are not angry or bitter, because I am not bitter. I'm hopeful, and as an artist I have to be, not just for my future or for the future of my children but for the whole world.

I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.