Quotes About Children

Paid family leave, for instance, has strong backing in scientific literature as an effective means of enabling families who want kids to have them.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

When you're in a big family you have to hustle all the time. But I think that's a good quality to instill in your children, for whatever they have to get.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

If you are passionate about entrepreneurship like I am, you too can instill this passion in your children.

You just hope that your kids find what they love to do and abide by the law and make good decisions. The best you can do is instill such values in them.

My mom sacrificed everything for my brother and me. She taught me so many things - about life, love, faith, ambition, and family - and she instilled in me the desire to have my own kids one day.

Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.

I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

I'm just natural with initiative, with instinct. Paediatricians have said so themselves.

We are all somebody's children, and when we're in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to our parents to make everything better.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have.

I want to impart my dance, my music: I want to make an institute and teach children.

It's a good idea to have your career intact and then have children.

Intellectual and emotional curiosity is what I hope I've taught my children.

Personally, I don't claim to be a great director. My films are made for children, not intellectuals.

People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world.

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

My intention in making a comment about the importance of breastfeeding has nothing to do with the law. It comes from my passion and beliefs about children.

If the creators of cartoons are intentionally or unintentionally giving children the idea that gay people are part of the big, happy human family, that's a good thing, not a bad one.

The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.