“When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.” ThinkingChildrenDreamWould BeRememberGoalAchieveFootballProudOne DayUnbelievableStadiumsFootballerMilan Author:Andriy Shevchenko
“We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.” WantChildrenGoalCommonShareSucceedOur ChildrenCommon Goal Author:Bob Taft
“Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their background is. The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals.” ChildrenCountryMatterSchoolParentGoalCommonClearTeacherStudentsStandardsEducationalBackgroundsRealisticSchool TeachersRealistic Goals Author:Roy Romer
“I would love to fall in love and get married and have beautiful children. I mean that's one of the goals in life, I think, to have, and it's a beautiful thing. My sister has kids and all my friends have kids. They show me their, you know their report cards. And I can show them my sports car.” ThinkingKnowsMeanChildrenI CanShowsKidsBeautifulFallSportsGoalCarMarriedMy FriendsFalling In LoveCardsReportsMy SisterBeautiful ThingsShow MeLife GoalSports CarsReport Cards Author:Tiesto
“If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.” IfsInspirationalChildrenWould BeIndividualWishGoalMy Children Author:Lillian Gordy Carter
“The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.” MenNeedsMindChildrenBodyDesireGoalPresidentCommunityCitiesQualityBeautyTalentDemandConcernedHungerPresidentialGoodsQuantityCommerceGreat Society Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.” MindChildrenStillsAmericaYoungGoalImaginationEducationThirdsOur ChildrenYour ChildrenOur SocietyClassroomYoung MindsGreat SocietyThird Place Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity and need for relaxed play that make learning possible in the first place... learning cannot be controlled; it is out of control by design. Learning emerges spontaneously, it proceeds in an individualistic and unpredictable way, and it achieves its goal in its own good time. Once triggered, learning will not stop--unless it is hijacked by conditioning.” IfsWayNeedsTryingFirstsChildrenPlayGoalTeachingAchieveDesignDisciplineCuriosityGood TimesControlledUnpredictableRelaxedConditioningBoundlessIndividualistic Author:Roger Fouts
“If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable.” IfsChildrenStatesFallLeftGoalNumbersBehindsStandardsCracksAllowingLeft BehindLarge NumbersDisadvantagedNo Child Left Behind Author:Roy Barnes
“By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.” ChildrenStatesUseFunGoalHeardDangerousDrugAbuseMedicineAddictionBe GoodReportsTreatmentIllegalPotAfternoonSaturdayStoppingEnteringNormInitiationDrug AbuseDrug UseIllegal DrugsUndercutSaturday Afternoon Author:Andrea Barthwell
“In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.” IfsYearsChildrenHas BeensLastsGoalCitiesCarBe GoodBicycleMobilityTricycles Author:Enrique Penalosa
“The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.” ShouldChildrenHas BeensTwoWantedSidesGoalDebateAbortionTwo SidesPhony Author:Germaine Greer
“To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.” ChildrenDoeGoalOur ChildrenDefinitionsArguingDefinition Of Success Author:Gerry Spence
“As we educate a child -- removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience -- we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence -- towards perfection.” MindChildrenMovingGoalRaceExistencePathPerfectionUltimateObstaclesAidsEducateConstructsStrengtheningUltimate GoalMaturedMoving OutReplicaSlowly But Surely Author:Leonid Andreyev
“As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.” ChildrenWantedGoalPlansHappenedProduceLawyer Author:Stephenie Meyer
“Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.” IfsChildrenLastsGoalMy ChildrenHave FaithLast Words Author:Sarada Devi