Quotes About Children

I have learnt a lot about the challenges children face - poverty, inequality and their difficulties in accessing basic services.

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

It's inevitable that we'll have some form of designer children, fueled not just by the science but by parents' hard-wired desire to give their children every advantage.

I leave work by 6:30 P.M. so I can spend some time with the children. Inevitably, we'll end up watching basketball or football. I live in a house of boys, and they're all sports mad, so I don't stand a chance.

The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants.

Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

We teach that God's love for His children is infinite.

Children's ability to learn is infinite when they are engaged.

I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.

I want to encourage all parents to read to their children because it helps them to become better educated, better informed.

Each child is made in the image of God and has inherent worth.

I've always been concerned about the environment. Becoming a mother only intensified my concern. I became even more alarmed about what we are doing to the earth and what our children will inherit as a result.

What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.

This is the big question that we all have about our children: How much, how soon, do we tell our children the less comfortable facts about the world they're going to inherit?

Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.

From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.

There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.

I can't stand people who have all the money but do not even bother to help innocent children in any small way they possibly can.

I love the innocent way my kids see the world.

Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.

Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found ways to serve those children that traditional schools couldn't.