Anyone who hates children and animals can’t be all bad.
I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
Demanding that our leaders take action on climate change is about a lot more than polar bears and ice caps; it’s about safeguarding our health, preserving our prosperity, and protecting the future of our children.
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it’s important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it’s great fun growing old.
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, ‘I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,’ and tell my children that.
In my career, there’s many things I’ve won and many things I’ve achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children and my family. It’s about being a good father, a good husband, just being connected to family as much as possible.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they’ll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
There are no human rights to corrupt our children.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
The soul is healed by being with children.
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.
When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.
To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction – they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‘how-to-parent’ strategies both seductive and dangerous.
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
My parents always threw everything out, gave everything away. I’m surprised they never threw me away. That’s why I’ve always kept my children’s things. My parents had no feelings for belongings.
People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
Having children really changes your priorities.
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
The streets of India are not safe for children, and every year, thousands are forced to live on the streets, avoiding being kidnapped or worse.
Good words will not give me back my children.
Children make your life important.
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers – and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
By nature, I’m a very positive person, and because I’m happy in myself, and in my life, and I’ve got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
We want to inspire cricket fans and enhance their love for the game as well as bring new people and children into the fold and encourage them to pick up a bat.
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me.
Normally, adults process their waking experiences during sleep. Children cannot yet carry their waking experiences into sleep. Thus, in sleep, they settle into the general cosmic order without taking their physical experience into the cosmic order.
Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
I hope my own children never have to fight a war.
Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.
When I’m at home, I don’t discuss business. I don’t talk business. I don’t answer the phone. It’s just me, my wife, my children, my dogs. That’s my world.
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child’s play.
I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don’t know I’m only using blanks.
There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
