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Quotes About Children

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate.
~ Jonathon Porritt
We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.
~ Mark Kennedy
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
~ Brad Henry
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
~ Herman Melville
Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience
~ Lilian Katz
Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.
~ Joseph Cornell
From my clinical experience, I consider that children and adults with Asperger's Syndrome have a different, not defective, way of thinking.
~ Tony Attwood
It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.
~ Al Jarreau
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.
~ Salma Hayek
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
~ Chaka Fattah
I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim th? innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.
~ Mamie Gummer
It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.
~ Jerry O'Connell
Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence.
~ Jan Jansen
When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.
~ George W. Bush
There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.
~ James Dobson
The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.
~ Smiley Blanton
Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.
~ Boyd K. Packer
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
To write for children at all is an act of faith.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.
~ Unknown
I'm jealous of my parents, I'll never have a kid as cool as theirs.
~ Unknown