Quotes about children
children school government
We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution. We spend nearly half of our lives working to pay for it. Children spend more time in government schools than they do with their parents. Birth, death, marriage, every area of our lives feels the influence of government. Harry Browne
children fighting government
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
children people african-american
I was filled with rage. These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of ‘targeting’ African-American children, they care about you only while you’re in the womb. The minute you crown, you’re on your own. Gwen Moore
children health funeral
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.
children gymnastics injury
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine. Gwendoline Christie
children cry used
When I was a child, I used to cry all the time. Gwen John
children moving trying
It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood. Gwen Ifill
children later-in-life two
If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.
children kids odds
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.
children land giving
What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land ... Gwendolyn Brooks
children simple simplicity
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
children abortion remember
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
children writing thinking
I'm just writing what I feel, and I really don't think I've done anything wrong that I need to hide. The biggest thing, and I don't even like to bring it up, is my children - you know, you've gotta protect them. Gwen Stefani
children vanity accepting
I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.
children passion vanity
I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.
children opposites singers
Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.
children lying thinking
We do live in an unsafe world. That's the truth. I'm dealing with that now, with my seven-year-old. He's grappling with the fact that the world is unsafe, and that there are people who do harmful things. I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can't lie to our children and pretend that the world is perfect, and everybody's happy, and everybody's out there to do good. It's just part of a bigger conversation. Gwyneth Paltrow
children ice-cream vegetables
Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.
children self parent
When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption Gregg Easterbrook
children eat fabric households huge kids leap machines mental soap users using washing
Households with children may use their washing machines every day, ergo they will be big users of detergent and fabric conditioners. And it's not a huge mental leap to say they also eat a lot of food. If they've got babies, they're going to be using a lot of diapers. And the kids are probably going to eat a lot of confectionary, and they'll be using a lot of soap and shampoo.
children gorgeous husband normal sleep
How could she not be happy? She was tall, thin, gorgeous and rich, rich, rich, with a husband who didn't want to sleep with her, two normal children and she had a crown. Joan Rivers
children
I don't think my parents told me enough how the world doesn't really care about me. I think it's important to tell children that the world doesn't really care about you. You have to fight to be heard. James Gray
children god law love men seek served strife
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.
children good maybe men
If men see other men who are good examples, maybe they'll follow. Then the children will be winners.
children current definitely finding house lived lottery spend time won
If I won the Lottery I would definitely just spend my time with my children and do up old houses. I've lived in my current house for 15 years and I'm still finding things that I want to do to it.
children greater hear joy walk
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
children deprived grew
I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face. David Blunkett
children guilty missing stop walk
I'm very thankful. When you walk through the Wal-Marts and you see the missing children, do you really stop and take a look at what the children really look like? To keep a look out for them, I know I was guilty of not doing that ... from now on I always will look and look out for those children because you never know.
children people
I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder. Andie MacDowell
children committed fortunate
I'm very fortunate because we're committed to co-parenting our children together, Elle Macpherson
children expected fields might
In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this? Joanna Lumley
children matter race voice
I'm the voice for those children who do not have a voice - no matter what race they are. Mary Ford
children complete human marriage seen women
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings. Marisa Tomei