Top 1200 Poor Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should not just be for the elites, but for everyone, for the majority, for the poor people. Quality food for poor people. Why just quality for the rich? And at an equal price

I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.

In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.

Do Libertarians care about the poor? Well, we're not ladening them down with debt, we're not sending them off to God damned wars, we're not creating a permanent underclass, we're not trapping them in shitty schools where they graduate unable to read, WE DO CARE ABOUT THE POOR, and that's why we want the State out of their way!!

Before you can transform your wallet from poor to rich, you've got to transform your spirit from poor to rich.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.

Caring for the poor is one natural overflow and a necessary evidence of the presence of Christ in our hearts. If there is no sign of caring for the poor in our lives, then there is reason to at least question whether Christ is in our hearts.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

I do not know how to love God except by loving the poor. I do not know how to serve God except by serving the poor.... Here, within this great city of nine million people, we must, in this neighborhood, on this street, in this parish, regain a sense of community which is the basis for peace in the world.

The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.

All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests

Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them.

One of the easiest things in the world to do is to tell other people how to raise their children. This is especially easy if you have no children of your own.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well - and for each of God's children.

I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as a children's book.

It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.

If you've got children it's a hell of an everyday job. From a business point of view, children and husbands slow you down.

This is our punishment, our Tribulation. God has abandoned this world. The faithful have already gone on to their reward, and he has left the rest of us here, at the mercy of the demons and the devils. The sins of our fathers have passed to their children, and their children's children, and it will continue to be so until this world is completely destroyed. So it doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, because He is not here.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

I watched my children grow up, then they left home and had their own children. You miss them.

It is sad that the world has gotten more of my time than my children, but my children benefit from it through their financial and economical freedom that I didn't have.

Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of course your children come first; of course you come last; today's children need constant attention, cultivation, and adoration, or they'll become failures and hate you forever; you don't want to fail at that; it's easier for mothers to abandon their work and their dreams than for fathers; you don't want it all anymore (which is good because you can't have it all); who cares about equality, you're too tired; and whoops--here we are in 1954.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children - and all children - could grow up in a better nation and world.

Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

There's no real nationalism in this county. If you're poor in America, that's a criminal offense. You're not only a criminal for being poor, but you're also stupid and deficient. We don't have this national feeling of fraternity. We live in an individualist state where everyone hates everyone else, except your immediate family. We live in a mafia state.

When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.

What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.

You could sit on top of a mountain praying for hours a day and still not make it if you had no love in your heart. You could spend your life feeding the poor and still not make it because your karma required you to bear and nurture children. The path home to God is different for every person. Only communion with your Higher Self will reveal your path to you.

Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.

Being a dad is my most important job because it not only affects my children, but their children and many generations to come.

450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children - and hundreds of thousands more Iraqi children will die if there is war - you have to believe that God will judge us very harshly for this.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

I became very aware of how important it is to connect with children - possibly for the children, if they're in the mood for that - but certainly for the adults.

the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.

Many countries do not allow women to convey their nationality to their children - if they are single mothers, the children become stateless.

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.