- Nov 07, 2020
Children Quotes
Raising kids, and the duties that come with it.
Quotes about "children" here include a filmmaker recalling audience shock at a controversial early work, alongside pointed reminders that entertainment isn't a substitute for parenting at home. For prayer-focused content about children, see Prayers for children.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, it's a very powerful voice when you're able to perform on any level on any stage and have the audience, have the attention of children. It's a gift. It's not to be taken lightly, and it can be used for good or for bad.
- Nov 07, 2020
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
- Failed
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children typically are not screened for dyslexia, which means it's not until fourth grade that it's detected, at which point they have to take a standardized test, and they can't read. I mean, they literally cannot read.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.
- Meeting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
- Nov 07, 2020