“Every elected official on this planet should understand - don't play with our children, don't do it.” ChildrenOur Children Author:Michelle Obama
“We don't know whether we'll be able to go to school because of budgetary constraints; that might not be bad because the schools are not doing anything of value for our children in the first place. Jesus said you can tell a tree by the fruit it bears and if the educational system of White America is good for us, where is the fruit from that system that says so?” ChildrenSchoolValuesJesusTreeOur ChildrenEducational Author:Louis Farrakhan
“What does God want us to do? As He did with the children of Israel in Egypt - He wanted the children of Israel to separate into a state or territory of our own. You're going to have to decide. Some of you want to stay - stay. Some of you want to be White - be White. But we want to be ourselves; we want something that we can pass on to our children other than a cheap job and a hustle selling drugs and pimping our women.” ChildrenDrugOur ChildrenSellingWant UHustle Author:Louis Farrakhan
“It is very, very rare where a slight that turns into a grudge that is in need of forgiveness is only about one of the parties. In most of our day-to-day situations - with colleagues at work, with your partner, with your children, with your friends - most of the time, if you really got down with each other and put aside your pride and your defensiveness and you had those hard conversations, you'd find a place where both people had something to ask for forgiveness from the other and to forgive the other.” PeopleChildrenPartySituationPrideOur ChildrenForgivingYour ChildrenGrudgeAsking For ForgivenessDefensiveness Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“We need a more widely shared burden on the part of society to keep asking, "What are our collective values, what kind of world do we want to bequeath to our children, and to what extent are these particular technological developments helping us go in those directions? I think that corporations, every bit as much as governments, social movements, and universities - we all have a role to play in asking those questions. I don't think anybody should have a monopoly on that responsibility.” ThinkingWorldKindChildrenHelpingValuesResponsibilityOur ChildrenBurdenTechnological Author:Sheila Jasanoff
“During the Month of Ramadan, you should be more careful of the words that you speak to your wife, to your children, to your neighbors, in the councils that you are a part of. That counsel should always be that I want for my brother what I want for myself.” ChildrenSpeakWifeBrotherOur ChildrenCarefulNeighborYour ChildrenMy Brother Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war. We need human security: food, education, health care for our children. We don't want to waste it on wars and militarism. That will be our focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.” ChildrenWarCareMovingCultureFocusSecurityBuildingOur ChildrenHealth Care Author:Mairead Corrigan
“We have to shine a bright light on horrific moments in society if we're going to create a better world for our children.” WorldChildrenMomentsOur ChildrenShiningHorrific Author:Julie Smolyansky
“It is stupid not to talk about sex. It is stupid not to communicate with your spouse and your children. It can't be a taboo.” ChildrenStupidOur ChildrenCommunicateYour ChildrenSpouseTaboo Author:Cheryl James
“I don't understand why we have laws that prevent someone from walking a school campus and selling alcohol or drugs but somehow can't feed our children who attend those schools a healthy balanced diet, which I think is a lot worse. It's offensive and I think anyone who isn't offended by it is an idiot.” ThinkingChildrenSchoolWalkingHealthyDrugOur ChildrenAlcoholSellingIdiotOffensiveOffended Author:Andrew Zimmern
“When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.” ChildrenWarTransformationOur ChildrenObstacles Author:Wole Soyinka
“In European and American society, many pundits started to lament the death of literature; looking at youth who were getting more and more attracted to sitcoms - hard, adventure films and said, our children are no longer reading, or else they're reading cartoons.” ChildrenFilmReadingLiteratureYouthAdventureOur ChildrenCartoonSitcomLament Author:Wole Soyinka
“Going for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better life than you do. That is the key thing that politics needs to deliver: a better life for your children. That's why people are taking their lives in their hands and crossing the Mediterranean and the English Channel.” PeopleChildrenGrowthOur ChildrenYour ChildrenDecentBetter Life Author:Billy Bragg
“I suppose the real problem is if science becomes proprietary. If we start designing our children to have the edge, you will start seeing a certain kind of overclass developing, which obviously has terrible social implications.” KindChildrenRealProblemDesignTerribleOur Children Author:Luke Scott
“We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.” ChildrenSchoolTeachOur Children Author:Femi Kuti
“Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you tell your children or comics or film. Specifically what makes comics unique is that they are a storytelling device that forces you to think both visually and economically. Some might say you are limited by your imagination, but that is not true because someone has to draw it.” ThinkingChildrenHelpingFilmImaginationUniqueOur ChildrenStorytellingYour ChildrenBedtimeBedtime Stories Author:Jeph Loeb
“We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes "the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces" were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.” WorldChildrenMovingChildhoodChangedJudgingDrugBehaviorOur ChildrenDrinkingAdulthoodGrandchildrenPeer PressureChildren And Grandchildren Author:O. S. Hawkins
“You love your child and you want to protect your child more than anything on this planet, and yet by the time they're 17, 18, they're going to step into this world, and that world will not feel the same compunction, necessarily, toward your daughter.” WorldChildrenLove YouProtectDaughterOur ChildrenYour ChildrenOur DaughterLove Your Children Author:Connie Nielsen
“The sound of madness is life. It's waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing the sound of the city, it's everything. Madness isn't necessarily a negative thing, it can be a positive thing. You know, hearing them cry for you, if you have children, is a great thing, it's your child.” ChildrenKidsMorningCryNegativeMadnessWake UpOur ChildrenGreat ThingsClockYour Children Author:Barry Kerch
“Learning isn't just K-12. It starts prenatally. If you get a bead on what your children are and aren't being exposed to at school, that will suggest the kinds of experiences you want your children to have outside of school.” KindChildrenSchoolOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
“Live in the moment, this moment, your moment. That is by far and without meaningful rival The Best Position to put yourself in to discover and delight in who your children turn out to be, whoever they turn out to be.” ChildrenMomentsOur ChildrenMeaningfulYour ChildrenLive In The MomentYour Mom Author:Carolyn Hax
“We have had with Barack Obama some just amazing experiences traveling abroad, being able to introduce our children to the world.... I'm also humbled by the response and the receptiveness, not just here in America, but around the world. There's a part of that warmth and enthusiasm and hope that is surprising and humbling.” WorldChildrenOur ChildrenResponseEnthusiasmBarackWarmthIntroducingHumbling Author:Michelle Obama
“After eight years of Barack Obama and one crazy election, we almost got it wrong. We came this close. But then we remembered who we were. Then we remembered what America was. Then we confronted our challenges and embraced our opportunities. And because we did what needed to be done in 2016, our children became the freest and most prosperous Americans that ever lived.” ChildrenDoneOpportunityChallengesCrazyOur ChildrenElectionBarackProsperous Author:Marco Rubio
“I really just think it's disgusting when people - to actually say that you want to be famous, it's just gross. There's nothing wrong with fame, but to seek out the spotlight just to be on TV for the sake of being on TV, and to put your children on there, I think, is especially disgusting.” PeopleThinkingChildrenFameOur ChildrenYour ChildrenDisgustingGross Author:Jon Glaser
“When it comes to how the slaves treat each other: If you've been brutalized all your life - if you have seen your children sold or your mother beaten and raped and you have been tortured yourself - you are not going to be up for your best behaviour. Even in the 21st century, 100 people in the midst of terrible suffering are not going to be their best people.” PeopleChildrenMotherSufferingTerribleOur ChildrenSlaveYour Children21st Century Author:Colson Whitehead
“We are facing a flood tide of factors into our daily lives and the lives of our children that conspire against weight control, and for that matter, health, any single policy or program we use to turn the tide is like a single sandbag. You put down the sandbag on the banks of the river. You could ask the question: Have we held back the flood? A sandbag isn't designed to hold back the flood. A sandbag is designed to be part of a levy to hold back the flood. It doesn't matter if it's a good sandbag, maybe a perfectly good sandbag. By itself it can't fix the problem.” ChildrenProblemPolicyProgramOur ChildrenDaily LifeFlood Author:David Katz
“Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the quality of our air and water for our children. Most Americans want action on climate change. You can just go through the list. Most Americans believe in progressive taxation.” PeopleBelieveChildrenActionWaterQualityHard WorkOur ChildrenSafetyClimate ChangeProgressiveFairnessSafety Net Author:Nancy MacLean
“Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone. It meant knowing you are property that could be sold to the highest bidder, of value only to continue to support the plantation economy.” ChildrenTogetherValuesSupportEconomyOur ChildrenPropertySlaveOur FamilyYour ChildrenStability Author:Colson Whitehead
“But this cheap-thrill version, this sort of ease definition, the feel-good definition of happiness is an empty promise. Unless we get wiser as to how to carry the difficulties of life in a way that's self-compassionate and empowering, we can create this kind of world in which we'd rather sort of plug into the matrix with whatever pills or escapist tendencies we can think of instead of walking through a process of living that's going to include loss. It's going to include limitations on function. We need to learn and teach our children how to do that.” ThinkingWorldKindChildrenLossTeachWalkingPromiseEmptyDifficultyOur ChildrenLimitationEmpoweringWiser Author:Steven C. Hayes
“Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in a single day or two to more horror on our Internet Web pages than our great-grandfathers were exposed to in decades of living. We have not created modern minds for that modern world. Science and technology has just dumped it on us. And I think people yearn for it. I think you see it in what's popular. Why are people wanting to learn about meditation and talking about a purpose-driven life? It's because they know more is needed in the modern world.” PeopleThinkingWorldMindChildrenTechnologyMeditationModernInternetHorrorOur ChildrenScience And TechnologyDumped Author:Steven C. Hayes
“You have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other. We must find better ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children, especially in social media.” ChildrenSupportHonorGoodnessOur ChildrenSocial MediaDisagree Author:Melania Trump
“There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.” ChildrenHomeCommunityTeachDutyHonorBaseballOur ChildrenObligationLife Is Like Author:Rhymefest
“There are still many women - and their spouses and children - who view a reflected self - I'm Mrs. Smith, not Mary Smith - as psychologically healthy. Those people are not motivated to change. But it is really dangerous to live through others'. What ever your circumstances, it is not a good idea to be wholly dependent on responses from others to like, respect or love yourself. Your children will grow up and start their own families; the divorce rate has remained at 50 percent for decades.” PeopleChildrenGrowing UpLove YouDangerousCircumstancesHealthyOur ChildrenResponseRateDivorceYour ChildrenMotivatedLove YourselfSpouse Author:Judith M Bardwick
“Once you've created an intelligence so smart, the real job of that intelligence is to protect itself from other intelligences becoming more intelligent than it. It's just kind of like human beings. The way you look at money or the way you look at the success of your child, you always want to make sure that as far as it gets, it can protect itself and continue forward. So I think any type of intelligence, no matter what it is, is going to have this very basic principle to protect the power that it has gained.” ThinkingKindChildrenRealProtectSmartIntelligentOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Zoltan Istvan
“I was really strict about my daughter sleeping in her own room, and now she's really independent and likes it that way. So I think for all new moms, I can totally see how you can get wrapped up in making your child 100% your time. But if you could just take 5% or 10% for yourself a day, it won't just make the difference in your confidence, but also your sanity. I think once you just set boundaries and how you're going to parent - everyone parents differently so I hate to be that person to tell them how anyone should parent, I think whatever works for you works.” ThinkingChildrenHateParentSleepMomDaughterI HateOur ChildrenIndependentBoundariesYour ChildrenMy DaughterSanity Author:Kim Kardashian
“In my own life, there's no amount of success or money that's more important than your child being healthy and happy. There's nothing that can put a band-aid on that. There's nothing more valuable, to me, than your child.” ChildrenImportantHealthyOur ChildrenValuableYour Children Author:Paula Patton
“Rather than the word career, I prefer to discuss how you make a positive I pact on the world. This could mean raising your children, professional activities, non-profit work, or various other actions you take that impact others. I have found that, at all ages, people want to be needed and play a role in impacting the world.” PeopleWorldMeanChildrenAgeActionOur ChildrenVariousYour ChildrenPact Author:Robert S. Kaplan
“If you really want success in life, it's two-fold. You want to be able to take care of yourself and take care of yourself well, but there's the other side in which you want to be able to take care of yourself so that you're a happy person, so that you're passing those qualities and those tools onto your children.” ChildrenCareQualityOur ChildrenTake CareYour ChildrenSuccess In LifeTake Care Of YourselfHappy Person Author:Rachel Roy
“So, the advice that I would always give is make sure you've got your own career, before you put your child in the business.” GivingChildrenAdviceOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Jaleel White
“Women are not taught to get a massage or do anything for ourselves because it makes us feel extraordinarily guilty. But the more we can fill ourselves up with things that make us happy, the happier we'll be, the happier our children will be, the more we have to give, and the more loving we'll be.” GivingChildrenOur ChildrenGuiltyMassage Author:Rachel Roy
“The love of a child is different from any other type of love on the planet. And being loved by your children is a love that is immense. I'm always so overwhelmed by how much my children love me. I think the best part of being a parent is feeling the love of a child.” ThinkingChildrenDifferentFeelingsParentOur ChildrenMy ChildrenYour ChildrenOverwhelmedBeing LovedBeing A ParentChildren LoveTypes Of Love Author:Jada Pinkett Smith
“You just don't want your child to ever feel like they have less of an opportunity to succeed based on the circumstances in which they were born. I try to be optimistic about everything. There are no victims in my home.” TryingChildrenHomeOpportunityCircumstancesSucceedOur ChildrenVictimOptimisticYour Children Author:Nia Long
“I promise to do everything in my power to achieve energy independence and to do so within ten years and to stop global warming, which says to the American people that we are about the future, about addressing how we create jobs, how we care for our children, how we grow our economy, and how we preserve our planet.” PeopleChildrenCareEnergyEconomyAchievePromiseOur ChildrenIndependenceGlobal WarmingI Promise Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college. That's not higher education's fault. That's our fault K-12.” ChildrenTodayLyingStudentsCollegeOur ChildrenHigher Education Author:Arne Duncan
“This is a devastating problem, is, the longer our children are in school, the worse they do. Year after year after year, our children in America are falling further behind. Our 3- and 4-year-olds enter kindergarten OK, and they fall further and further behind. Each year, children in other countries are learning more than children in this country. And so the gap between American student performance in Singapore and Finland and South Korea and Canada and these other countries, the gap widens year after year after year.” ChildrenCountryProblemSchoolFallStudentsOur ChildrenKindergarten Author:Arne Duncan
“I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. Any way to get the word out, I'm just learning about this. The end of this distribution sentence is the scariest part, which is when you start producing and directing. Now the movies are a little more like your children. You now spent years of your life and then it just dumps in one day and you think what happened? It doesn't always happen.” ThinkingMeanChildrenFilmLike YouOne DayOur ChildrenYour Children Author:Campbell Scott
“You might think that Social Security's family benefit maximum is what it sounds like, a straightforward dollar ceiling on the total amount that you, your spouse, and your children can receive on your earnings record and that the same ceiling would apply to everyone. But you'd be wrong. For starters, there's a rather weird and arguably unfair formula for calculating the family benefit maximum.” ThinkingChildrenOur ChildrenYour ChildrenUnfairSpouseStraightforward Author:Laurence Kotlikoff
“I decided to go into politics because my children are growing up, and I became worried about the ways things are being handled in this country. I felt there's a lost generation of people who feel misrepresented, and that they're doing their best for the country but the country is not doing its best for them. We are all looking at our children and wondering whether or not they will see their future in Israel. They looked at the country before the last elections and saw it becoming more and more Orthodox. There was a strong sense of unfairness.” PeopleChildrenCountryStrongWonderGrowing UpOur ChildrenElectionWorriedMy ChildrenOrthodoxUnfairness Author:Yair Lapid
“In America we now live more in fear than in hope, and eventually that will lead to ignorance and hatred. We need to have optimism that the world can be a better place, and we can leave a legacy for our children. Being bilingual, travel and studying geography, culture and religions can help.” WorldChildrenHelpingCultureStudyIgnoranceHatredOptimismOur ChildrenLegacyGeography Author:Greg Mortenson
“Certainly I am sometimes afraid, but my hope is greater than my fear, and the biggest enemy we all face is ignorance which breeds hatred, whether it be in America, or Afghanistan, or anywhere. We owe it to our children that we may give them all a legacy of peace, but it will take courage and compassion.” GivingChildrenSometimesCompassionEnemyIgnoranceHatredOur ChildrenLegacyAfghanistan Author:Greg Mortenson