Quotes about children
children book years
This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children. Michael Scott
children reality media
Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible. Michael Medved
children character vegetables
Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food. Michael Moss
children taken upset
As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.
children book writing
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not. Michael Morpurgo
children dark adults
Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.
children technology understanding
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
children attention remember
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.
children reading school
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
children book writing
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.
children reading fine
Anything that gets children reading is fine.
children intelligent animal
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
children two parent
I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six. Michael Moore
children kids parent
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.
children hate home
The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.
children laughing stories
I’m not a child. (Zarek) No, you’re not a child. You never were. Children are supposed to be protected and cared for. You had no one to hold you when you cried. No one ever soothed you. They never told you stories or made you laugh when you were sad. (Astrid) Sherrilyn Kenyon
children optimism grace
You have the optimism of a child. (Julian) Peter Pan all the way. (Grace)
children animal thinking
Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house with your child. The blood of my parents flowed from their bodies through the floorboards and drenched me while I lay in terror of being torn apart by them. I was only a year older than your child when it happened. My parents gave their lives for mine and I watched as they gave them. So you’ll have to excuse me if I have a hard time thinking good of any animal except those who are dead or caged. (Angelia)
children one-day needs
I take offense to that. (Pandora) And I take offense to my sudden need for a testicle retrieval. You know, I would have liked to have fathered children one day. (Mike)
children breathing fire
Oh, pooh, you’re just like akri. No, Simmi, don’t be breathing fire around the flammable objects or small children. Except for that black plastic card that’s not really plastic. It some metal thing, but the Simi loves it cause it let her buy everything she want without limit. He never say no to Simi when she use it. Oh, hello, there, Fang. You okay? You looking kind of peaked or piqued or…? Oh, heck, the Simi can never keep those straight. (Simi)
children father opportunity
The important thing is this: that, under such government recognition as we may give to that which is beneficent and wholesome in large business organizations, we shall be most vigilant never to allow them to crystallize into a condition which shall make private initiative difficult. It is of the utmost importance that in the future we shall keep the broad path of opportunity just as open and easy for our children as it was for our fathers during the period which has been the glory of America's industrial history... Theodore Roosevelt
children men healthy
A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.
children exercise men
It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.
children benefits handle
Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.
children interesting void
Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.
children use ifs
It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself.
children romance parent
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth Theodor Reik
children imagination television
Television deprives children of their imaginations.
children eye order
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. Theodore L. Cuyler
children heart joy
Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.
children inheritance coats
You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.
children israel hymns
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel. Theodore Bikel
children life-changing states
Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. Thandie Newton