Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've come a long way since I've come on the board. We've improved the qualify of our school buildings. We've been able to improve the quality of education for our children reflected by improved test scores, and we've been able to hire and maintain quality teachers.

Chris Jones

We were told that Jeffery had potential for violence. There is no indication here that there was any problem removing the children from the home and the parents were not arrested.

Jade Jagger

You have got to give children respect from the earliest stage. You should be proud of whatever you do. If you're not, you really shouldn't be doing it at all.

Gerry Kelly

This trouble will stop when Protestant community leaders can say with confidence that these children can go to their school in safety.

This tragedy was the direct result of terrorism; hundreds of innocent people, mostly women and children, have died because of the fear and panic that terrorists are sowing in Iraq,

John Thompson

To say the only means we can survive is to put in a 28-story mountain of trash is not right, ... Our children in the future are going to pay a price.

Orson Scott Card

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Orson Scott Card

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Orson Scott Card

How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

Orson Scott Card

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

Orson Scott Card

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Orson Scott Card

Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

Orson Scott Card

I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.

Orson Scott Card

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

Orson Scott Card

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Orson Scott Card

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

Orson Scott Card

She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children.” “Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew.” “They were delicious.

Ram Dass

So many times each day we support each other informally without ever becoming 'helper' or 'helped.' Perhaps we're finding an article of clothing for a partner, cutting bread for one of the children, collecting the mail for the person at the next desk, holding the coat for someone at a restaurant.

We were really surprised because he'd been so abused, but he loves children and people.

We don't need to be encouraging children to have kids and find a loophole in order to get married.

We can't send our children into higher learning or the work force without up-to-date technology skills.

We condition our children to like stereotyped children's food but left to their own devices children like things like curries.

We concluded that it's highly unlikely that middle ear disease had any impact on children's later development, ... Children are pretty resilient, and it's not as though there's no hearing. They might be turning up the TV or parents might have to speak louder, but these children aren't deaf. When their hearing gets better, they make up for the temporary loss.

We don't want to force them to move their children if they don't want to.

We don't want this to happen again. Something needs to be done about the way the police handle and mishandle children while they're in their custody.

We have been seeing the devastation on children and on families at a record pace,

We have been able to start a program for elementary school children with TUSD.

We have grandparents, live-in lovers, step-parents, persons that are not even biologically related to children that are raising them. We need to have some understandings as to what standards we are going to use to determine which rights they have.

We have good success with them (Noah's Ark). It's a great facility that serves children well.

We have gained 105 children in that period (last six months). Just since Christmas we've gained 79 children.

We're all God's children ... none of us come from any place but God,

When parents read to their children, their children are better readers. If parents don't have literacy skills or have never been read to, or they have never found joy in a book, it's really difficult for them to make that transition.

Rick Perry

When our work is done, parents won't measure our success by how much money we spend, but whether more children learn.