- Care
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- 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 Aug 01, 2026
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got married to Doug in 2005. I knew that we wanted to delay having children for a while, and I had tried pretty much every hormonal birth control method under the sun.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
- Favourable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
- Dictatorship
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
- Nov 07, 2020
My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020