“You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.” EnoughKidsHateLove YouDiseaseHate You Author:Carol Burnett
“Why are people so afraid of giving their kids necessary information that might prevent an unwanted pregnancy or disease? But they're not worried about the violent nature of video games or movies or books.” PeopleGivingBookMightKidsGamesInformationDiseaseViolentVideoWorriedPregnancyUnwantedUnwanted Pregnancy Author:Ellen Hopkins
“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.” PeopleGivingMaySometimesKidsNightDiesFatherGivenGrowsMemoriesSpaceGrowing UpMiddleCarArmsGoes OnSafeCreaturesDiseaseDaughterInfinitePhonesRingsFlyingDisappointMiddle Of The NightOur DaughterActualityFortressesSpeedingInfinite SpaceSpeeding Cars Author:Mary Cantwell
“The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access.” ThinkingShouldImportantIdeasHelpingKidsDiesJusticePoorRichDiseaseAccessUnbelievableVaccinesRich Kids Author:Bill Gates
“Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.” KidsTearsDiseaseIllTerminally Ill Author:Tyler Farr
“It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it".” EyeKidsGuyTurnsGamesRealizingWatchesGenerationsCrazyFootballDrinkDiseaseBeerKicksGenesAlcoholismBuddyFootball Game Author:Nikki Sixx
“It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.” KindHardEnoughKidsHealthyDiseaseNormalRaisesAddParentingBurdenParenthoodDisability Author:Patricia Heaton
“Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.” IfsShowsKidsJobsDyingDiseaseGood JobVaccinationsMeasles Author:Bill Gates
“The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future.” IfsKnowsChildrenMightKidsGenerationsHavensPlanetsFutureDiseaseAdultsBallsSpreadDumbOur FutureRecipesLooking GoodDenseFilthyPissed OffHandguns Author:Scott Adams
“My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society.” KidsDifferencesMoralAchieveDiseaseArgumentSakeEdgesCuresConsumersIntervention Author:Michael Sandel
“I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is that you're really trained to listen and to be open and have empathy. It's such a natural consequence that you end up being more political. You can empathize with the mother whose kids are going to be sent to Iraq, or you can emphasize with the mother who is losing their child to a disease. How could you not then be active? So you're automatically drawn to that aspect in the rest of your life.” ChildrenRealEndsEnoughHappensKidsRememberPoliticalMotherActorsNaturalInterestingDiseaseLosingEmpathyConsequenceAspectIraqActiveRest Of Your LifeNatural Consequences Author:Susan Sarandon
“In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.” WorldMadeDifferentKidsGamesGrowsDifferencesGrowing UpTakenChildhoodAchieveDiseaseIntelligentSavingOutcomesReportsPhilanthropyPhenomenalFull PotentialMalnutritionVery PositiveHaving KidsBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Bill Gates
“There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.” ChildrenTwoKidsAgeFunnyMotherFunShareDiseaseParentingTwo ThingsChild RearingFunny FamilyPediatricianRearing A ChildCommunicable Diseases Author:Benjamin Spock
“Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.” YearsBelieveHeartChildrenFactsKidsAgeSchoolParentRiskDiseasePercentBlameFactorsOverweightHeart DiseaseObese Author:Alison Sweeney
“What would Kathy say if she knew I let the whole crew eat those Oreos when they never did eat their carrot sticks (which I had so firmly required as prerequisite)? All three of my kids were probably heading for disease (not enough veggies) and jail (not enough discipline).” IfsEnoughWholeKidsThreeDisciplineDiseaseSticksJailCrewHeadingsCarrotsPrerequisitesOreos Book:All Moms Go to Heaven: Reflections Source: All Moms Go to Heaven: Reflections
“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.” WorldChildrenBookKidsWatchesNiceWifeTelevisionDrugDiseaseFindingsCleanDivorceBoredConformityDistraction Book:Lullaby Source: Lullaby
“A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.” MenLittlesLongEndsKidsAsksSpeakGrowsWatchesCuttingTreeDadDiseaseSummerPlantMy DadBlockSavingDamageBranchesStrongestLittle KidChoppingEnd Of SummerCutting Off Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.” DifferentWould BeKidsUniverseHouseEnergyStarsWaitingDarkRocksBandDiseaseMy FriendsStandingWindowMadStealingCuresMysteriousObsessedBelongingDestroyingCowsDrsYardsRock StarAstronautScenariosNeuroticExplorersCartoonistDwarfsCabDwarvesGnomeMotelsUndefinedDark EnergyDruggiesMad Cow Disease Book:Going Bovine Source: Going Bovine
“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.” IfsWorldNeedsChildrenDoeUseMightKidsNextStarsGrowsParentResponsibilityGrowing UpImagineDiseaseMajorsOur ChildrenParentingYour ChildrenConquerorNounsMotion PicturesUnqualifiedCollectibles Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.” ThinkingKidsHouseLaughingDiseaseBuckets Author:Louis C. K.