Quotes About Children

She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.

She asked her parents to buy him the books she'd been read by her first teachers, Peter Rabbit and Frog and Toad. "What's the point of buying books for someone who can't read?" her parents asked, legitimately enough, and so she checked them out of her school library and read them to Rahul herself.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.

I hope to work, support my children and die quietly without pain.

I work pretty hard, and struggle, and things are hard, but the most important thing to remember is that I have beautiful children that I love, and I love them.

I'm making the assumption that after Mrs. Obama leaves the White House that she will continue all of her work toward improving education in this nation and childhood health.