“It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.” PeopleKindChildrenImportantDifferentTodayListeningOur ChildrenBackgroundsYour ChildrenDifferent KindsExposure Author:Al Jarreau
“Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.” PeopleIfsWayWantShouldFirstsChildrenParentTeacherHonestHabitOur ChildrenPeacefulBeing HonestYour ChildrenCopies Author:Baba Hari Dass
“The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.” PeopleChildrenDreamYoungOpportunityLanguageTalentOur ChildrenDenyAmendmentsEnglish LanguageAmerican Life Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“I believe giving back is one of the greatest life lessons we can teach our children; that the world isn't all about them, and that through our actions people will really discover what kind of a person we truly are.” PeopleWorldGivingBelieveKindChildrenPersonsActionI BelieveTeachLessonsOur ChildrenLife LessonGiving BackOur ActionsGreatest Life Author:Gretchen Carlson
“It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that's what I mean by the pleasure principle.” PeopleThinkingMeanChildrenCharacterSoundPleasureFictionPrinciplesLove YouReaderOur ChildrenAcknowledgeNovelistsYour ChildrenOnly LoveLove Your Children Author:Martin Amis
“We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.” PeopleInspirationalChildrenPersonsDoeCharacterSocialDecisionTeachLearningNiceEqualGoodnessOur ChildrenStrategySeekingMy ChildrenInteractionTraitsTeaching ChildrenNice PeopleFirst ImpressionSocial InteractionNicenessNice PersonInteracting With OthersCharacter TraitControl Someone Book:The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence
“The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance.” PeopleFirstsChildrenGovernmentSchoolReligiousWrittenPrayingBalanceProtectConstitutionOur ChildrenGenuineTyrannyNonsenseAmendmentsIntoleranceFirst AmendmentReligious FreedomPendulumsRedressGovernment Tyranny Author:Ronald Reagan
“I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldYearsWellsChildrenRealDoneStreetsBabyIndustrySixJokesOur ChildrenYour ChildrenEntertainingCircusGypsySix Year Olds Author:Natasha Lyonne
“I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house and steal your children. They won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won't even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population ... you know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails.” PeopleKnowsChildrenI CanGovernmentTurnsHouseRightsEffectsCitizensGayMarriedPercentOur ChildrenPopulationStealingPursueYour ChildrenZeroGay PeopleGetting MarriedAmerican CitizensLustfulDebaucheryHedonisticLegal Rights Author:Chris Kluwe
“The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices to come to full adulthood, whether man or woman. Our elders may have become so denatured themselves from a lack of such nurturance that there is no longer a collective knowledge of how to guide the awakening emotional vitality and authenticity of our young people, our children. Mindfulness may contribute to a reawakening of this ancient wisdom in ourselves and in others.” PeopleMenMayChildrenBodyTodayYoungLeftEmotionalDevelopmentMindfulnessImportanceOur ChildrenAncientGuidesAwakeningAuthenticityCollectivesDevicesAdulthoodVitalityEldersAncient WisdomCollective Knowledge Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn
“If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.” PeopleIfsTryingKindChildrenEndsAgeHoursWeekTelevisionOur ChildrenIncomeYour ChildrenAspirationHopelessAssociation Author:Noam Chomsky
“Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.” PeopleMayChildrenHas BeensDifferentProblemLiteratureDealsFictionPossibilityEternalOur ChildrenScience FictionGenreExploration Author:David Brin
“God's Word will never pass away, but looking back to the Old Testament and since the time of Christ, with tears we must say that because of lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the part of God's people, God's Word has many times been allowed to be bent, to conform to the surrounding, passing, changing culture of that moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of God judging the form of the world spirit and the surrounding culture of that moment. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may our children and grandchildren not say that such can be said about us.” PeopleWorldMayChildrenSaidMomentsFormSpiritCultureJesusNamesChristLordTearsJudgingJesus ChristOur ChildrenPassingPassingsThat MomentWord Of GodLooking BackConformTestamentBentGrandchildrenFaithfulnessFortitudeOld TestamentPassing AwayLord Jesus ChristChildren And Grandchildren Author:Francis Schaeffer
“What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.” PeopleFeelsYearsKindChildrenDoeHas BeensStillsVoiceRoomsPlanetsPromiseThousandOur ChildrenSilentLoyaltyEveningSaneSubmitThousand YearsRebirthOur PlanetPsychedelicKindlesLogosPsychedelic ExperienceSmall Voice Author:Terence McKenna
“Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill.” PeopleChildrenSpeakParentEmotionPrinciplesTeachMoralityIntegrityHighestOur ChildrenSticksHonestlyYour ChildrenInstill Author:Jeff Bryant
“We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need.” PeopleWantNeedsGivingChildrenBookCareMotherLeftOur ChildrenCastlesAffordableOlder PeopleDay Care Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I can't change the past and I'm truly sorry that people got hurt along the way but not everything reported in the media is reality and continuing to rehash things publicly only makes it more difficult for everyone to heal. I hope for the sake of our children we can all move forward and heal privately. I wish their mother nothing but the best.” PeopleWayChildrenI CanRealityPastMovingMotherWishDifficultHurtMediaOur ChildrenSorrySakeHealMoving ForwardContinuingCan't ChangeGot HurtCan't Change The Past Author:Eddie Cibrian
“We think about our country and the big issues that we face in this country; creating jobs, making sure people can keep their jobs, the need for rising wages, whether our children when they graduate from college can find a job, protecting the homeland, destroying ISIS, rebuilding defense. These are all the things that we need to focus on but we'll never get there if we're divided. We'll never get there if republicans and democrats just fight with one another.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsChildrenCountryBigsJobsFacesFightingIssuesFocusCollegeRepublicanCreatingOur ChildrenDemocratDefenseOur CountryRisingDividedDestroyingGraduatesWagesIsisHomelandRebuildingCreating Jobs Author:John Kasich
“We have multiple Black men and women losing their lives simply for being. Who gets to say you don't get to live anymore? I don't understand that. And it doesn't stop there. Can we go into the school system and look at the imbalance of what our children are learning? We are functioning crazy, people.” PeopleMenLooksChildrenSchoolBlackCrazyLosingMen And WomenOur ChildrenMultipleImbalanceSchool SystemCrazy People Author:Regina Belle
“Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we have increased government in order to stay in office. And, soon, if we don't remember why we were elected we will have lost our office along with our principles, and leave a mountain of debt that our children's grandchildren will suffer from long after we have departed this earth. Because, my friends, hypocrisy is the most obvious of sins, and the people will punish it.” PeopleIfsChildrenLongGovernmentEarthRememberSufferingOrderLostSinPrinciplesMountainOfficeMy FriendsOur ChildrenSizeObviousDebtHypocrisySpheresInitiativeGrandchildrenDepartedSize Of Government Author:John McCain
“The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.” PeopleWorldChildrenPersonsStatesEyePresidentUnitedUnited StatesOur ChildrenSymbols Author:William Bennett
“How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingChildrenSelfInterestCompassionEconomicSeriousOur ChildrenBillionsEnlightenedNightmareIntegrationSelf InterestPoorestCredibleDivergence Author:Paul Collier
“Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors. We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them. This movie shows that perspective from Scott's character, and I love it. It shows the American Indians as the ones who respect and help out when people are needed. It's a nice little twist.” PeopleKnowsChildrenLittlesCharacterHelpingShowsCarePastNiceGenerationsPerspectiveNeededBehaviorOur ChildrenHistoricalTraumaTake CareHealOur FutureGrandchildrenTwistsAmerican IndianPast Generations Author:Adam Beach
“All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentSelfRememberChildhoodAdultsOur ChildrenStructureNarrativeDifferent PeoplesBiographers Author:Rachel Holmes
“Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.” PeopleChildrenLittlesImportantChoicesAbilityPayTelevisionCollegeOur ChildrenSignificantLuxuryYour ChildrenSignificant Things Author:Patricia Arquette
“I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingYearsMindChildrenRealLastsFatherDecisionBehindsCompanyFiveMinutesGiving UpBuiltSickOur ChildrenDollarsBunchOur WorldFive MinutesGreat PowerMaking DecisionsSidelinesBusiness World Author:Donald Trump, Jr.
“I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsChildrenBigsLastsThreeHouseLeftBornMy OwnFourChildhoodQuietDiedOur ChildrenNostalgiaEchoesHappy Family Author:Guy Maddin
“People are constantly telling me, whether they are friends who feel sorry for me, because I can't find a place to live, or real estate agents, "You can't afford an apartment the size you need with this many books. Why don't you just put some of your books in storage?" And I always say the same thing: "What if I told you I had four children? Would you say, 'You just can't afford to house four children. Why don't you just put two of them in storage?'" That's how I feel.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsChildrenI CanTwoBookRealHouseFourOur ChildrenSorrySizeAgentsWhat IfApartmentEstatesBecause I CanPlaces To LiveStorageEstate Agents Author:Fran Lebowitz
“The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.” PeopleGivingLooksChildrenMadeAblePoliticalProcessRightsImpossibleSacrificeAchieveMovementWillingGiving UpOrdinaryOur ChildrenCivil RightsBotherYour ChildrenOur FutureOrdinary PeopleYour FutureCivil Rights Movement Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“When I visited Auschwitz I was horrified. And when I visited Iraq, I thought to myself, 'What will we tell our children in fifty years when they ask what we did when the people in Iraq were dying.'” PeopleYearsChildrenAsksDyingOur ChildrenIraqFiftyAuschwitz Author:Mairead Corrigan
“I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.” PeopleKnowsChildrenMatterHandsSeemsYoungDiesTurnsWaitingFourWeekOur ChildrenBad Things Author:Lurlene McDaniel
“When people criticize our work, whether that work is a spreadsheet, a coffee, or our children, we take it very personally as if they were attacking us. This response shows how instead of taking criticism in ways that help us in our work, we become easily defensive and negative.” PeopleIfsWayChildrenHelpingShowsNegativeCriticismOur ChildrenResponseCoffeeCriticizeAttackingAttacking Us Author:David Kim
“When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back.” PeopleChildrenPayPlansOur ChildrenIntentionStealing Author:Jane Goodall
“In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that. All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.” PeopleWayTryingChildrenLittlesPassionInterestPowerfulTeacherBrotherMarkOur ChildrenYour ChildrenFilmmakerMy BrotherMy SisterPursuedLibrarianGood ParentGood ParentingKnockoffs Author:Bill Ayers
“The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.” PeopleWantYearsChildrenSelfHardKidsValuesThreeSuccessfulHard WorkDisciplineSixEmpathyDaughterConcernedOur ChildrenDemocratSelf RespectBeing SuccessfulThree YearsNot AfraidFrameworkHappy PeopleSix Year OldsThree Year Olds Author:Barack Obama
“It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction.” PeopleThinkingChildrenHeavenOur ChildrenYour ChildrenDistinctionTrue ManConsoling Author:Richard Dawkins
“Now we know more about it and we teach our children not to get into cars with strangers but back then it was you know people didn't really use to that mentality yet.” PeopleKnowsChildrenUseTeachCarOur ChildrenStrangerMentality Author:Boti Bliss
“While there's currently great turmoil, there is even greater opportunity for US to work together to transform our community. Far too many of our children are fatherless, far too many of our mothers are standing in the prison waiting rooms and far too many of our young people feel hopeless.” PeopleFeelsChildrenTogetherYoungMotherOpportunityWaitingCommunityRoomsGreaterStandingOur ChildrenPrisonWorking TogetherHopelessOur CommunityTurmoilWaiting RoomsFatherless Author:T.I.
“Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsMeanChildrenRealSelfShowsCareValuesLeftGoneMaterialsOur ChildrenSelf WorthObsessionLuxuryYour ChildrenAbundanceImpressEvidentMomentaryReal MenMaterial ThingsTrue ValueAmenitiesCould Care Less Author:T.I.
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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