Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.

Barack Obama

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Brad Pitt

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.

Aristophanes

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

William Bennett

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

Jean de la Bruyere

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Candace Bushnell

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

Bonnie Bedelia

I have two children - could I ever choose between them? Never. That's what 'Sophie's Choice' was about. If you have 50 children, you don't love one less.

Bonnie Bedelia

We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.

Bonnie Bedelia

It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important.

Andy Garcia

I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.

Andrew Vachss

All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.

Ann Hood

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

Brooke Shields

I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.

Marion Cotillard

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

Bill Nye

It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.

Aerin Lauder

It's my personality to be more quiet and reserved. I'm not going out every night to multiple things. I prefer to stay in and be with my children and do Spanish homework to make sure they get a good grade the next day.

Laura Bush

We're laying the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren,

Jerome K. Jerome

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

Richard Carmona

We still have several thousand children a day who start smoking every single day in this country and half of them will go on to be chronic smokers.

We still have 100,000 children who are eligible for the program.

B. F. Skinner

I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.

Ben Shapiro

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

The project will help teachers weave together supports for children literacy and social-emotional development in all classroom activities.

John Selden

Tis a fine thing for children to learn to make verse; but when they come to be men, they must speak like other men, or else they will be laughed at

Touching is extremely exciting for children. It eliminates the distance between children and art.

This study is the first of its kind nationally to reveal the long-suspected national increase in prevalence of children with or at risk for diabetes.

You don't raise your children by yelling at them constantly. You explain to them, If you use this device in a compromised way, you may sink the firm and lose your job and your retirement.

Today's children are very opinionated. You have kids that only want to wear pink, or only want to wear neutral. We are showing parents they can do it all.

Stanley Baldwin

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

Maxim Gorky

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.