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Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.
When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.
It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter
It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.
I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
'Doctor Who' was my first telly job, and before that I did a lot of theatre in education, children's theatre.
Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.
I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.
You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
Buck Rogers, I believe, is an illegitimate child of Galactica. I only hope Galactica won't turn in its grave.
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers
I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.
I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.
Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.
Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.
Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.
Hillary Clinton worked with Marian Wright Edelman in Children's Defense Fund. That's all you need to do know.
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.
If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well
I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.
The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.
The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.
Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.
There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.
I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.
The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.
I have two dogs. If I had retarded children, I'd be a hero. And yet, the dogs are pretty much the same thing.