Quotes About Children

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

The children and families seeking asylum at our border deserve our immediate attention and humanitarian aid.

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for me, and thought I'll go back to children's books, and almost immediately I started 'Holes,' and it just seemed to take off on me.

In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'

Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.

Even kids who haven't had firsthand experience with the immigration system, I want them to know how families are affected and what kind of system is in place.

People don't think that leaving children alone is dangerous and therefore immoral. They think it is immoral and therefore dangerous.

When you write for kids, people always ask you what lesson you mean to impart. I don't think adult writers get that question. I never mean to teach anybody a lesson, because I don't know anything myself.

I'm a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn't attached to chores - it's a great way to impart the value of money to your children.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

I know the importance of family. I mean, it really completes me as a person. I want lots of children; I want so many children. I look at babies' pictures, and I am like... I love kids.

To be clear, people are the most important part of any classroom. If given the choice between a great teacher and the world's most advanced education technology, I'd pick the teacher any day for my own children.

I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

One of the most important things to do is to raise our kids in a respectful way with both genders.

My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around.

The most important things that children want from you are your time and love.

Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.

I try to make my kids happy, so when they grow up they can look back and see a father who did important things for their country and tried to make history.

Like any doting parent, I believe the most important work we do is the way we bring up our children.

Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.

During the entire communist era, communist ideology was imposed on children. That was Bolshevism.