Quotes About Children

Early care and education helps children build the skills they need for success in kindergarten and can help close the achievement gap.

I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all and it's relaxed me.

When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.

No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.

I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.

I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.

I love my kids; I'm very close to all three of them.

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.

Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

Anybody who's had children knows this feeling of deep love. It's a selfless love, an unconditional love. And it makes you kind of examine everything that has happened.

If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience. Vote for candidates up and down the ticket.

I'd love to have a child. Either one or 40. I love kids.

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.