Quotes About Children

Margaret Sanger, a public health nurse who challenged laws against distributing birth control information, embraced eugenics. Sanger founded Planned Parenthood, ostensibly to encourage poor immigrants and other Americans to limit the number of children they bore.

Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.

There are parts where even individual trees are crosshatched, where Ul Qoman children and Besz children clamber past each other, each obeying their parents' whispered strictures to unsee the other.

The children from the bridge were often waiting there, eyeing me. They congregated by the stump and played a game involving motions as strange as those of worship. To me it looked as if they were feeling the missing bark for handholds, as if it were an expertise of town children that they could climb ghost trees.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who tread on their toes.

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

The U.S. government has a 5 A Day campaign that's designed to encourage kids to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. McDonald's alone outspends this campaign by a ratio of 350 to 1.

If a child sees a McDonald's commercial every single day, it would take them almost a year to see just one commercial about 5 A Day.

Our median customer is 32 years old, married, with kids; and 93% of our customers work a full-time job. Our typical customer has 1.7 children (with 1.3 under the age of five). Her top 3 reasons for buying our product are 1) convenience, 2) familiar flavor, and 3) "not as bad" nutritionally as many of our competitors.

When you appeal to the Rider inside yourself or inside others you are trying to influence, your game plan should be simple. First, follow the bright spots. Think of the Vietnamese children who stayed well nourished against the odds

I don't agree with you that the private life must be sacrificed for the public one. And that is the final advice that I leave for my children: my dearest boys, balance duty with love. Trust me, it can be done.

And this is one of the final things I learn about love: it's found in its purest form, on this imperfect earth, between mothers and young children, because there's nothing they want except to make each other happy.

Ah, how helpless we children are, how dependent on the whims of adults.

And that is the final advice that I leave for my children: my dearest boys, balance duty with love.

Death entered the medical miracle of the twentieth century already camouflaged. But in scientifically advanced nations, it now takes place in hospitals or nursing homes, out of view, a medical failure rather than a natural process. And, to 'protect' our children, rarely does it make an appearance within their beautifully illustrated picture books.

Mi familia me ha procurado una alegría insuperable, y debo deciros, hijos míos, que ninguno de vosotros me ha causado ni un minuto de angustia, salvo por razones de salud [...] Cuando erais muy pequeños me procuraba un gran deleite jugar con vosotros, y me inspira cierta pena que esa época haya desaparecido para siempre.

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.

It turned out that the only difference between children and adults was that children were prepared to put twice the energy into the project of not being sad.

It was beautiful, and that is a word I would not need to explain to the girls from back home, and I do not need to explain to you, because now we are all speaking the same language. The waves still smashed against the beach, furious and irresistible. But me, I watched all of those children smiling and dancing and splashing one another in salt water and bright sunlight, and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned.

Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn't yet made the effort to become tall.

Oh, I hope I don't teach. Because look what we did: we saved the zoo animals and the nice children, and we damned the afflicted and the blacks. You know what I do every day in that classroom? I do everything in my power to make sure those poor souls won't learn the obvious lesson.

Mary had written the names of her thirty-one children on brown luggage labels and looped them through the top buttonholes of their overcoats. Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn't yet made the effort to become tall.