“The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.” ChildrenProblemKidsWaitingQualityDoctorsSickFunctionFilledHospitalsPassiveHigh Quality Author:Irwin Redlener
“There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.” ThinkingWayHas BeensHardKidsFormCulturePowerfulFansLandRocksMessagesMusic IsFunctionRock N RollRock MusicSubversivePopulistElitistApatheticHard RockSohoRock N Roll Music Author:Tom Morello
“I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also, as most artists are, a very sensitive person, so I need that outlet to release that. Art needs to be in my life, otherwise I can't function as a human being. I heard Madonna say, "Live it, breathe it, eat it." That's how I am with the artistic part of myself.” NeedsHumansLooksPersonsArtI CanKidsArtistHuman BeingsHeardPerformancesFunctionBreatheReleaseArtisticSensitiveLook At MeOutletsSensitive PersonSkit Author:Tinsel Korey
“My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.” DifferentPlayKidsUsedMotherFoundFatherHouseChurchRecordsSawsFunctionJazzPianoChoirBuzzMouthpieceChurch ChoirJazz Records Author:Johnny Griffin
“I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.” IfsPersonsHas BeensI CanDifferentWholeCharacterKidsPleasureActingFunctionDifferent Characters Author:John Travolta
“Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.” IfsThinkingEnoughHelpingSeemsKidsAbleJobsPoliticalTeachDemocracyTroubleFunctionComplicatedCriticalDiverseCritical ThinkingPolitical SystemsBetter JobsDiverse Society Author:Barack Obama
“It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function” KidsSchoolFeltLike YouFunctionMessMeatGrinder Author:Gerard Way
“The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents are unable to function effectively in the parenting role show more anxiety and depression, as well as sleep and health problems, than those whose parents have a strong support network and solid inner resources to rely on.” WellsChildrenLongImportantShowsProblemKidsStrongParentTermSleepRolesSupportDegreesAnxietyResourcesFunctionLong TermRelyAdaptationSurvivingIndicatorsHealth Problems Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition
“All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American kids going to bed with no math at all.” ChildrenKidsScienceParentMillionsFiveBedFunctionChinaMathComplainingSixtyEquationsStop ComplainingQuadraticsQuadratic Equation Author:Michael Cunningham
“I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.” InspirationalTryingKidsSchoolMotherNightTeamBasketballNormalDaughterFunctionCoachesMy DaughterSoftballBasketball Team Author:Tim McGraw
“I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.” IfsWayWritingKidsAgeUsedThreeMinutesFrontsTenComputerFunctionMore Time Author:Jodi Picoult