I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
We have three cats. It's like having children but there is no tuition involved.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs talk to them.
You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children except in self-defense.
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter control or singly cope with.
After I won the Oscar my salary doubled my friends tripled my children became more popular at school my butcher made a pass at me and my maid hit me up for a raise.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
I come from that society and there is a common thread specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family and the unconditional love for one's children.
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
I wanted to be a teacher. I love children so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven when I opened my mouth and said 'Oh God what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.
With patient and firm determination I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
As a father my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
Children have to be educated but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
In giving us children God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet according to His perfect design it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators in every nation by children being taught mathematical concepts.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely if ever do they forgive them.
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5 mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life the children; those who are in the twilight of life the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life the sick the needy and the handicapped.
I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around and I definitely want to have children as well.
A woman should be home with the children building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
I am tortured when I am away from my family from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent there has to be something inside you that says 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage children and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
For students today only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.
I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family love and children.
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.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet and our children's diet and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.
Everybody wants you to do good things but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry have children and go to their football games.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them however has not changed.
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort all of us to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables but there is more.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession education hours worked age marital status and children men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions like nursing dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning not the result of ignorance or accident its children will become the foundation of a new race.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children you're thinking about working.
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you or they may do it.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Everybody knows how to raise children except the people who have them.
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
I figure that if the children are alive when I get home I've done my job.
We must respect the other fellow's religion but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
I want to have children but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
I take my children everywhere but they always find their way back home.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
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.
I feel very blessed to have two wonderful healthy children who keep me completely grounded sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
Believe me my children have more stamina than a power station.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age sex color class or religion children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales so is the other.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Children even infants are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Never have more children than you have car windows.
I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy substance abuse and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them that would be poor parenting on my part.
Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments poorer health lower cognitive development and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves thereby repeating the cycle.
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
Never have more children than you have car windows.
The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitive society is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Screaming at children over their grades especially to the point of the child's tears is child abuse pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing scarring disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie I panicked and hit the gym. I was like 'It's going to be on film documented for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'
While not impossible it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.