I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.
I am so grateful for my children who remind me every day what matters in life, and I feel fortunate to be their mommy and share their special love.
I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
My children know not to shout before Mummy has warmed herself into something human with her coffee.
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., science fiction, fantasy, romance - I read it all. Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
All revolutions devour their own children.
Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.
For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.
My children are the most important thing in my life.
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.
I didn't know other children from divorced families, and I was a bit of a lost soul for a while. Then suddenly, I was performing. And it gave me an identity.
When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.
Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.
I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
Progressives believe in making progress, which is why I'm proud to endorse Hillary Clinton, who I know will continue fighting to ensure our children and grandchildren can achieve their highest and best dreams.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
