Top 1200 Helping Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may thrive.

I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.

You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.

The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.

Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.

My husband and I adopted our children through a private agency, Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children. As a nonprofit organization, it relies on client fees as well as donor support to do its work.

All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character. Sometimes you can lower your voice with excitement or get more intimate about it: you can lean forward and engage the children as a narrator or as a reader. It's particularly important that you find the voice that you want to use for each character, because then children can imagine that person as you're reading aloud. And of course, the illustrations help enormously.

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.

We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.

Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still a lesson my children are going to have to learn. I can't protect my kids from that.

There’s something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

I felt my country should do more for its children. Its children are not born gangsters. In fact, they have in them the potential to be heroes because most of the kids who are in these gangs are leaders, very charismatic and good organizers.

I try and treat my children from the age of ten months as if they were totally grown up, which I think is the only way to treat children.

I have wanted to have children. I do want to have children.

I told my children, 'I don't like children.'

I do my job on the mound and then do what I can at the plate, always working on helping the team anyway I can.

The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.

I find it hard to read people's minds, my own children's minds even harder. But it all worked out, and I was blessed with two wonderful children.

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.

A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.

God loves his children more than any earthly parent, so think what your kindness to his children means to him.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness wasn't spending it helping people who needed it.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for the commitment of Christian children who help the Church in her task of evangelization by prayer, sacrifice and gestures of solidarity....Thousands of children meet the needs of other children, driven by the love that the Son of God, become a child, brought to the earth. I say thanks to these little ones and I pray that they will always be missionaries.

I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.

Our state is great, but it can be greater and I am committed to helping realize that potential.

I think my children deserve to have a relationship with their mother... and their father. The children deserve the opportunity to meet their parents' significant others in a good, positive way.

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?

Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products.

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

The American evangelical movement in Africa does valuable work in helping the poor.