Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are targeting vulnerable elders with a weak social network, particularly those without children and living alone.

We're looking into her as a caregiver to her own children.

This question of child porn, child exploitation -- it's a good thing that it's in the news so heavily.

This program takes away teachers' creativity to respond to the different needs and talents of our children with one-size-fits-all testing in reading, math and science.

Tom Vilsack

This program is critical to the elderly, disabled and children of this state,

Andrea Yates

There are two tragedies, ... One is my children and the other is my wife.

Barbara Park

I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.

Barbara Park

There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.

Barbara Mertz

Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Auguste Comte

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

Auguste Rodin

The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

Augusten Burroughs

All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.

Augusten Burroughs

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

Augusten Burroughs

My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy discourages this. They feel your gun should rarely, if ever, be brought out of its holster. Most certainly not when children are involved, which is exactly when I saw myself using my gun most often. A truant teenager loitering outside a movie theater is going to be far more motivated to return to school when he has the barrel of a .45 pressed against his cheek.

Augusten Burroughs

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

Augusten Burroughs

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

Augusten Burroughs

I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.

Augusten Burroughs

Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

Augusten Burroughs

Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.

Arthur Miller

Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard to stay awake. A small boy will never be harshly criticized at a funeral; he is more treasured as death comes close and all his wickedness vanishes before the inescapable fact that thank God, he is healthy.

Arthur Miller

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.

Arthur Miller

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

Art Briles

I'll fight a man with three children and a nice house any day over a man that's living out of a car.

Love your parents and your children will have loving grandparents.

Lots of people wanted to jump out of the windows, children were crying.

Let Serbia turn out en masse on September 24 and vote for itself, its children and its freedom.

Laura Bush

Let children talk. It's important for children to be able to express their feelings.

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Many of them also have other issues including a lack of transportation. Parents may have to miss time from work to take their child to the doctor and that can be an issue for a low-income family as well.

Many of the children didn't know their score, and if they did know the numbers they didn't know what scoring a level one, two or three meant in their school career.

Many schools really want children reading in kindergarten when that wasn't done in our day.

Mark Twain

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates - 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion