“At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.” ChildrenStillsYoungStageInvolvedAdultsYoung AdultMy ChildrenGrandchildrenMy Grandchildren Author:Margaret Mahy
“Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved.” ThinkingFeelsChildrenResponsibilityReadyBabyInvolvedRight NowCuteUrgesPuppy Author:Gabrielle Union
“I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple of regional theaters, and I was about to go back to Maine to work at a summer Shakespeare theater there. I didn't want to just jump around the country from gig to gig. I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community.” WantFirstsChildrenCountryWantedJobsCommunityCitiesGroupsCollegeCoupleInvolvedSceneSummerTheaterGet InvolvedGigsKentuckyMaine Author:Timothy Simons
“I took my children to see 'Son of Rambow,' about two boys who make a home movie with a video camera. When you have children, culturally you become involved in their life.” ChildrenTwoHomeBoysSonInvolvedCamerasVideoMy ChildrenVideo Cameras Author:Sophie Thompson
“When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.” NeedsChildrenRememberSportsInvolvedOur ChildrenCaringYour Children Author:Frank Shorter
“Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.” NeedsChildrenStatesEnoughWholeNationsLevelsSubjectsWillingInvolvedMembersSakeCongressDebtErasMy ChildrenSanityRestraintGrandchildrenEmphasisChildren And GrandchildrenNew EraGrabbing Author:John Ensign
“I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps it can take to address the digital divide as it affects local children, and provide a range of opportunities for ICT suppliers, government agencies, charities and other organisations to make a contribution.” ChildrenMadeGovernmentSchoolOpportunityStepsInvolvedCharityCampaignsLocalsRangeAgencyContributionAddressesDigitalDividesDelightedOrganisationSuppliersGovernment AgenciesDigital DivideIct Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
“I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.” ChildrenHomeOpportunityGrowsParentGrowing UpMissingSonInvolvedMy FriendsMy Son Author:Karen Hughes
“Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of a community. . . . The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this array of children no less than in our great material affairs.” IfsChildrenSufferingForceNationsInterestCommunityMaterialsInvolvedCapacityAffairWelfareDestructiveEnlightenedNeglectCitizenshipProtective Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.” ThinkingLooksMayChildrenHas BeensSometimesFilmFacesProcessChangedTelevisionInvolvedOffersFellowsSeriesChecksNovelistsCashInvitedNaiveTruckDumpStunnedPremieres Author:George R. R. Martin
“I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.” ChildrenKidsPoliticsDealsHonestHonestyInvolvedBeing HonestGet Involved Author:Dolly Parton
“Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.” NeedsGivingYearsFirstsChildrenIdeasSelfShowsFoundEnergyHeardInvolvedBattleYears AgoTwentiesPoliceObviousCriminalsLawyerBreakupServingGatheringShow BusinessAccusedTransparencyAttorneyTwenty OneAccusationEnmitySelf ServingSecond ThoughtsCustodyMiaCriminal LawMalevolenceMolestation Author:Woody Allen
“The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.” PeopleChildrenFatherInvolvedContactReceptive Author:Warren Farrell
“Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parent loses, so lose the children.” ChildrenFatherParentLosesInfluenceInvolvedDestructionErasEmergenceReconstructionVisitation Author:Warren Farrell
“I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.” ChildrenHelpingMightEyeAbleFeltParentDyingTearsInvolved Author:C. Everett Koop