Quotes about children
children way syndromes
Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free. Sally Phillips
children profound achievement
To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement. Sally Field
children heart opportunity
My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises. S. Truett Cathy
children odds long
Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.
children people influence
You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.
children thinking perfect
Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome. Saadi
children heart secret
When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions. Ruth Rendell
children people desire
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. Rumi
children world genuine-smiles
To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.
children i-can ifs
If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children. Rosa Parks
children powerful racism
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
children elderly people
There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.
children father way
My father felt that children should make their own way. Ron Reagan
children talking parent
Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.
children cat gambling
We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
children rich poor
One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children Ron Rash
children angel years
Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children. Roma Downey
children compassion years
I have been a spokesperson for Operation Smile for twenty years helping children with facial deformities. I also have worked with a children's mission called Compassion International. Both are doing amazing work for the children of the world.
children glasses risk
I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby I gamble, I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in the fact, no sign. Roland Barthes
children men interesting
Isn't it interesting how men 'leave' their families, but women 'abandon' their children? Susan Powter
children my-children deserve
My children deserve to have the best, and now they will Susan Smith
children knowing needs
The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive
children water ramp
I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me
children voice risk
My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk Susan Sarandon
children parent trying
Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential...
children careers justice
I've always had a really developed sense of justice. As a child, I would rotate my dolls' dresses for fear that they might come alive at midnight and one of them would always have the best dress on. Whatever it was that made me worry about my dolls I suppose has paid off in my career because, really, an actor is all about empathy and imagination. And those are the cornerstones of activism.
children kids home
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
children teaching firsts
That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.
children winter ohio
I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy. Susan Orlean
children writing persistence
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
children snow joy
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
children employment able
Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded. Susan George
children home looks
Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dada finding of limited use to backlash publicists. Susan Faludi