Quotes About Children

In addition to the massive benefits that SNAP provides to children, it also gives critical benefits for Americans who face substantial obstacles to stable employment.

I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

There's no real substitute for the care of the real mother.

Every schoolteacher will tell you that there is no substitute for engaged parents in the education of a child.

Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.

My kids speak of both subtle slights and blatant racism. It's a narrative I never imagined for them.

If you've ever watched a television cartoon, you know that kids don't appreciate subtlety, though perhaps that's because they're not often offered it.

Subtlety doesn't work with kids.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

I enjoy helping young children succeed.

I know what it's like to do whatever you need to do to make sure that your kids are happy and well and succeed.

Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.

The research clearly demonstrates high-quality early childhood opportunities help children succeed.

The United States, he wrote in 1811, was "a land of peace and plenty, . . . the garden spot of the world; a happy asylum for the banished children of oppression.

Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness.

Not only was Miss Cribbe bearded, and always trying to get chummy with us like we we're her real children or something, but she had a disgusting incontinent springer spaniel called Misty, who was constantly sneaking in to the dorms and weeing on our duvets

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

Children always know when company is in the living room - they can hear their mother laughing at their father's jokes

Permissiveness and inconsistency with growing children do them more harm than some physical ailments.