Quotes About Children

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

Queer, how a man can neglect his children, as I have done ... when the thing he wants most in life is to see each one ...happy.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

But children grow up too, and they too must learn from history how easy it is for human beings to be transformed into inhuman beings through incitement and intolerance.

Era una cosa bellissima un uomo che spiegava ai bambini i numeri, gli anni della storia, i posti della geografia. C'era una carta colorata del mondo, uno che non era mai uscito dalla città poteva conoscere l'Africa che era verde, il Polo Sud bianco, l'Australia gialla e gli oceani azzurri.

In Atwater v. Lago Vista in 2001, the Court held that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment when they arrested a mother, and took her to the stationhouse for booking, for not having her children in seat belts

Not one of these things—driving on a remote road, driving a minivan, not waving at the police officers, or children having their knees up and waving strangely—is evidence of any crime.

Children know everything about beauty," Titch countered softly. "It is adults who have forgotten.

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.

The verbal patterns and the patterns of behavior we present to children in these lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for the rest of their lives. These aesthetic impressions, just like the moral teachings of early childhood, remain indelible.

If we don't see to it that our children turn out better than we did, what will become of the world?

Dad said I had no respect for money and that if I didn't learn when I was little when was I going to learn? Kids who get Bart Simpson dolls at the drop of a hat turn into punks who steal from convenience stores, 'cos they wind up thinking they can have whatever they want, just like that. So instead of a Bart doll he bought me an ugly porcelain pig with a slot in its back, and now I'll grow up to be okay, now I won't turn into a punk.

No quiero que adoptemos. Bastante difícil debe ser ya tener en casa un hijo propio. No quiero el de otra persona. - ¿Y si nos compramos un perro? - No vamos a comprar ningún perro. Adoptemos uno. Hay muchos perros abandonados que necesitan un hogar.

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful.

None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

My voluntary confinement here is restricted less by time than by my earthly existence. In essence I am dead -- dead for my children -- dead for my work ... I am dead but not yet buried, or buried alive -- whichever, the consequences are nearly identical ...