“When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the competition's much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.” WorldChildrenSportsTechnologyGreaterAreasOur ChildrenCompetition Author:Billie Jean King
“Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.” ThinkingKnowsMenShouldChildrenWould BeTogetherPoliticalAsksPoliticsGrowsKnownGrowing UpToo MuchMagicShould HaveOur ChildrenLegendsBe A ManShould Have Known Author:Jackie Kennedy
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.” InspirationalChildrenMotivationalScienceDeathPeaceCommonAirDyingPlanetsFutureDiversityOur ChildrenBreatheMortalsCherishLinksOur FutureBrotherhoodMy FutureMissilesUnity In DiversityCommon InterestsInspirational DiversityProfiles In CourageCuban Missile CrisisFuture Development Author:John F. Kennedy
“As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.” ChildrenAmericaParentWorryOur ChildrenAfrican American Author:Tracy Martin
“I hope I can tell you what happened in Europe and support you in your fight to preserve freedom for your children and your grandchildren, and tell them what I believe the Islamic threat is, and to discuss it with anybody - also people who don't agree with me. This is democracy. This is civil society. We should cherish that.” PeopleShouldBelieveChildrenI CanFightingI BelieveSupportDemocracyHappenedEuropeOur ChildrenAgreeThreatPreservesYour ChildrenIslamicCherishGrandchildrenCivil SocietySupport You Author:Geert Wilders
“It really is true the Lord's way is to love the sinner while condemning the sin. That is to say we continue to open our homes and our hearts and our arms to our children, but that need not be with approval of their lifestyle. Neither does it mean we need to be constantly telling them that their lifestyle is inappropriate. An even bigger error is now to become defensive of the child, because that neither helps the child nor helps the parent. That course of action, which experience teaches, is almost certainly to lead both away from the Lord's way.” WayNeedsHeartMeanChildrenDoeHelpingHomeActionCoursesParentSinLordTeachArmsBiggerOur ChildrenErrorsLifestyleSinnerApprovalInappropriateCondemning Author:Lance B. Wickman
“We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."” PeopleThinkingChildrenBookMightMotherNamesOur ChildrenSigning Author:Zach Anner
“It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.” IfsChildrenWarOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Robert Scheer
“One of the days we unpack finding out how your kids are wired, what kind of intelligence has God given them, how do they give and receive love, what the passions of their life, how does their birth order and their gender affect them because all of those things are part of the tapestry that God is weaving together to use each of our children for His glory.” GivingKindChildrenDoeUseKidsTogetherOrderPassionGivenBirthFindingsGloryOur ChildrenGenderTapestryWeavingGiving And Receiving Author:Stephen Kendrick
“For the rains and the rivers you need forests and you need to make sure these your forests are all protected, that there is no logging, that there is no charcoal burning and all the activities that destroy the forest. All this really needs to be done so that you can be able to grow good coffee, so that you can have an income, so that you can send your children to school, so that you can buy medicine, so that you can take them to hospitals, so that you can care for the women, especially mothers.” NeedsChildrenDoneCareAbleSchoolMotherGrowsActivityRainRiversOur ChildrenMedicineCoffeeIncomeForestsBurningYour ChildrenHospitalsProtectedCharcoalLoggingGood Coffee Author:Wangari Maathai
“I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not. And perhaps the greatest change of attitude is that today, at least in Kenya, if you don't send your child to school - unless it's a matter of poverty or religion, and it is not that there no schools - then people wonder, "why the hell don't you send your children to school?" Now that's a very big jump from when I was going to school and educating girls was an exception to the rule.” PeopleIfsMenChildrenMatterBigsTodaySchoolGirlAttitudeWonderPovertyHellExampleMarriedDaughterOur ChildrenYour ChildrenExceptionKenyaException To The Rule Author:Wangari Maathai
“If you want some additional money for your school, we'll give it to you. But you've got to compete, show us that you're going to reform your education system so that our children are performing better.” IfsWantGivingChildrenShowsSchoolOur ChildrenReformPerformingEducation System Author:Barack Obama
“If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.” IfsChildrenOppositesOur ChildrenSpotsFasterYour ChildrenHypocrisyInconsistent Author:Charles Koch
“One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though I never met her. I couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. She was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. When I lost my husband, I tried to model myself as much as I could on her.” ChildrenMadeTwoWholeSeemsCareJobsMotherLostGriefFourImagineOne ThingExampleMomGoes OnMetsHusbandModelsOur ChildrenOneselfMy MomWhole LifeGrandmotherMy HusbandMy GrandmotherBeltsGood ExamplesTwo Jobs Author:Patti Smith
“The Mayas, our grandparents, always said; every human being occupies a small piece of time. Time itself is much longer, and because of this they always said that we must care for this earth while we are on it because it will be part of our children and the children of our grandchildren. They know that life is short, that it can end so soon, and that if one gets lost on the way, others will come to take their place.” IfsKnowsWayHumansChildrenSaidEndsCareEarthLife IsLostHuman BeingsPiecesOur ChildrenGrandparentGrandchildrenLife Is ShortSmall Pieces Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“I think wars, climate change, all that stuff is going to move people. And so I wanted to say, "What if the migration apocalypse occurs and it isn't an apocalypse at all?" Maybe we will still find ways to be happy and for our children and grandchildren to thrive and the world to move on.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayChildrenStillsWarWantedMovingStuffOur ChildrenClimateClimate ChangeThriveWhat IfApocalypseGrandchildrenMigrationChildren And Grandchildren Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I'm proud that I've been able to work with other artists to make sure that the smallest voices - the voices of our children - have a chance to be heard. Artists can reach, inspire, and motivate young people and leaders in a powerful way.” PeopleWayChildrenAbleYoungArtistVoiceChancePowerfulLeaderHeardInspireProudOur ChildrenSmallestInspire And Motivate Author:Shakira
“I think that's why they're so really - here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem with the rationality of it. That the President [George W.Bush] says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come. "And, so what I'm going to do is you know, Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends, and our children and our children's children all suffer. So, what I'm gonna do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad."” ThinkingKnowsWayChildrenEndsProblemSufferingFightingPresidentGenerationsBattleOur ChildrenIraqOddTroopsRationalityOur GenerationBaghdadPresident George W Bush Author:Jon Stewart
“If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.” IfsGivingHeartChildrenGrowsBreakGrowing UpBrokenOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.” ChildrenYoungProtectOur ChildrenHarmYour ChildrenExplaining Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Whatever discipline you exercise should be based on the goal your child is eventually to reach, namely, freedom and happiness. I would show him towards what he is growing, his ultimate fulfilment, and help him to adapt himself to that. In everything that you do, you should keep the goal in view, and hence your discipline must aim at helping the child to realize that at a certain stage he will be above all discipline.” ShouldChildrenHelpingShowsCertainGoalRealizingViewsGrowingStageDisciplineExerciseUltimateOur ChildrenAimYour ChildrenFulfilmentFreedom And Happiness Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives in general. Their imaginations will be stimulated. I thank heavens for the father that gave me that to begin with.” IfsChildrenSchoolReadingFatherHeavenImaginationOur ChildrenYour ChildrenCurvesInstillLove Of Reading Author:Julie Andrews
“We have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education.” NeedsShouldChildrenWarFactsTodayDealsPovertyIssuesOur ChildrenDollarsHungerSolveSpendingBillionsImmigrationReformReceivingComprehensiveImmigration Reform Author:John Lewis
“If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.” IfsChildrenLife IsRealizingLuckyOur ChildrenOur FamilyYour ChildrenHollowAbout Family Author:Paul Stanley
“We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.” HumansHuman BeingsUnitedGoneChildhoodGrewGrew UpOur ChildrenRough TimesMigrate Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive governments founded in previous centuries, and they will be living on modular, sustainable, floating cities that we can't imagine now, that are based on the voluntary choice of citizens. I think we will have a marvellous world in the 21st Century.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksChildrenGovernmentChoicesCitiesImagineCenturyCitizensOur ChildrenPrimitive21st Century20th CenturyFloatingLiving OnMarvellous Author:Joe Quirk
“That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!” WorldChildrenArtHelpingBigsSchoolNextTakenConcernedOur ChildrenBig ThingsOther WorldsBerserk Author:Bette Midler
“Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat.” MeanChildrenShowsCareersNew YorkFindingsOur ChildrenOilBoatYour ChildrenDestroyingUsualPlasticHouseholdSurgeryBankingBostonFarmingPlastic SurgeryBanking SystemPeak OilShow Biz Author:James Howard Kunstler
“The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go wrong. You could get into a war. You could find that you have members of your family on the wrong side of a political crisis. You could be raped. You could find that your child has gone crazy because of some horrible experience she's had.” WayTryingChildrenWarPoliticalSidesGoneRichComedyCrazyMembersTragedyOur ChildrenCrisisHorribleGreekOur FamilyYour ChildrenFull LifeGreek TragedyTragedy And ComedyGone CrazyHorrible Experience Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are women. A lot of them are living alone, with no one to care for them, or they're shunted into institutions. I would like to see a sensible aging policy more like what the Nordic countries have. They're cutting back those programs, but there you can still have in-home nursing care. You don't have to rely on your children. I personally don't want to be a burden on my daughter.” PeopleThinkingMenWantNeedsChildrenStillsCountryHomeCareCuttingPolicyDaughterProgramOur ChildrenInstitutionsAgingBurdenYour ChildrenRelyMy DaughterSensibleNursingLiving AloneNordic Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“You have to empathize with your children. If you love them, you never really get too angry with them when they make a mistake, because kids are expected to make mistakes. Having children, you start to see yourself through them.” IfsChildrenKidsMistakeOur ChildrenAngryExpectedYour ChildrenMaking MistakesHaving Children Author:Terry Crews
“That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.” WayChildrenPowerfulAcceptingOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Maya Soetoro-Ng
“There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.” ChildrenOrderProtectOur ChildrenYour ChildrenLength Author:Benjamin Bratt
“My parents have worked their asses off their whole entire lives, they still do, and I never felt like anything would be handed to me. I never felt sorry for myself. I felt like, "Wow, this is incredible. I'm able to do this for myself." I think once you have that sense of empowerment at a young age and you allow your children to have that empowerment, it will fuel them for a lifetime.” ThinkingChildrenStillsWholeWould BeAgeAbleYoungFeltParentEmpowermentOur ChildrenLifetimeSorryIncrediblesAssYour ChildrenFuelWowYoung Age Author:Michelle Monaghan
“The real future of America, the best future for ourselves and our children, is to go back in the direction of limited government restrained by the Constitution.” ChildrenRealGovernmentAmericaConstitutionOur ChildrenLimited GovernmentFuture Of America Author:Robert P. George
“The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.” WellsChildrenImportantEarthWaterAbilityAnimalEnvironmentGenerationsAirConditionsPlanetsOur ChildrenPlantSurfaceBreatheWelfareSurroundingsOur PlanetFuture GenerationPlants And Animals Author:Yaya Toure
“If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your children, you're in their lives all the time. Leave them alone! Let them grow and make some mistakes. Tell them, "You can come home. My arms are here - and my mouth is too." When you really love them, you don't want to possess them. You don't say, "I love you and I want you here with me."” IfsWantChildrenHomeGrowsMistakeLove YouDangerousArmsMouthsOur ChildrenYour ChildrenComing HomeI Want YouOne LoveSay I Love You Author:Maya Angelou
“Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.” StillsChildhoodListeningSceneOur ChildrenIndependentCreditBunchCardsCaliforniaSatPretendingPunkApartmentShellsShocked80sFillingTruckBuddyCredit CardDeckChildlikeSkatesMisfitsEbayVendorsVideogameOaklandMemorabilia Author:Rick Remender
“The boxing promotion part is really interesting, because I got the chance to do something with my sons. They carry their own weight, and I get a chance to listen to them and see what they have on their minds. I don't have to hand out things to do, and now they have things for me to do. It's an amazing privilege to get the opportunity to work with your children.” MindChildrenHandsOpportunityChanceInterestingSonWeightOur ChildrenPrivilegeYour ChildrenThings To DoBoxingMy SonPromotionReally Interesting Author:George Foreman
“I have always tried to keep an honest, age-appropriate line of communication open with my daughter,India, even during the teen years, a painful time of development when they usually shut down, and the last person they want to speak to is a parent. But India would always tell me what was going on, so I really encourage people to be as open with your children as you possibly can.” PeopleChildrenSpeakParentHonestCommunicationDaughterOur ChildrenPainfulYour ChildrenMy Daughter Author:Eric Benet
“For me and movies - and it is kind of similar to motherhood and raising your children - I always feel like there's more you can do, and I don't know if that's particularly a female quality. I don't know how dads feel, but there's definitely a never say die, no stone unturned, never give up a minute that you could be pushing it down the road and try to make it better.” GivingTryingKindChildrenQualityDadGiving UpFemaleOur ChildrenMotherhoodYour ChildrenNever Giving Up Author:Suzanne Todd
“Once you're a mother, you're always a mom. So it doesn't matter if your child comes out green, purple, bisexual or whatever. That's who they are and you love them regardless. You guide them as best as you can. We must always proceed with love first and foremost.” ChildrenMotherMomOur ChildrenYour ChildrenBisexual Author:Tichina Arnold
“Everyone can help. We can educate ourselves and our children about other countries and cultures. We have a responsibility to be aware of others and I believe this will inspire the individual way each person can make their difference.” BelieveChildrenCountryHelpingCultureIndividualI BelieveResponsibilityInspireOur ChildrenEducate Author:Angelina Jolie
“The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely.” KindChildrenImportantTeachSolitudeLonelyOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Sherry Turkle
“People are way too hard on themselves. Comparing yourself to other people can be damaging; the most important thing is just to be you and to try to engage with your child. If you're constantly working, so you don't have that much time to spend with them, but you have 20 minutes at the end of the day to read them their favourite book, children will remember that.” PeopleTryingChildrenImportantBookRememberOur ChildrenCompareYour ChildrenFavourite Author:Liv Tyler
“On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your child's well-being on every measure you possibly can at every moment. So when your kid is sitting down playing with Legos, intensive motherhood dictates that you should be engaging with him or her somehow, praising, questioning, making it into a learning opportunity. It's not enough to just tell your child, "Do your homework." It's not enough to help with the homework. You go to the school and learn how they do math, so that you can tutor your child in math.” ChildrenEnoughMomentsHelpingKidsSchoolOpportunityPraiseOur ChildrenMathMotherhoodIdeologyYour ChildrenPrisonerQuestioningHomeworkTutor Author:Wednesday Martin
“The world will not give you an endowment for your finger-painting. Your finger-painting may be marvelous, but our government and society do not value art adequately. We should fulminate against that and seek to change it, but in the meantime you have to make choices. If you're an artist who likes to have a steady income for yourself, for your children, for your partner, to help you engage in elder care as you take care of your parents or grandparents, that's a good thing.” WorldGivingChildrenArtHelpingCareArtistValuesChoicesParentOur ChildrenGood ThingsTake CareYour ChildrenSteadyGrandparentEndowment Author:Sara Benincasa
“I don't care how old your children get, you're always a dad.” ChildrenCareDadOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Jack Nicklaus
“We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent.” ChildrenParentGrowing UpFailingRiskAdventureOur ChildrenYour ChildrenUnexpected Author:Alison Gopnik
“We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going to revise our knowledge and reshape their values. There's something very paradoxical and profound about being a parent as opposed to parenting. We put in all this effort and energy not so that we can shape a child of a particular sort, but so that all sorts of possibilities can happen in the future.” ChildrenCharacterValuesEnergyParentEffortMoralPossibilityOur ChildrenProfoundParadoxicalBeing A ParentMoral Character Author:Alison Gopnik