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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
Rock stars hawking Diet Cokes--are demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards for the perfect & holy children of God!
All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.
It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.
My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.
The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.
Well all of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks, get into your kicks. Come back baby, rock and roll never forgets.
What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.
This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.
My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.
That's why I call Barack Obama a petulant child. He's doing it on guns. He did it on immigration. He's done it on "Obama care."
To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.
We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.
The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.
Two kangaroos were talking to each other, and one said, 'I hope it doesn't rain today. I hate it when the children play inside.
The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself.
In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.
How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.
With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.
Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.
I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.
We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.
When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"
I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.
Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.
In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night
Our home joys are the most delightful earth affords, and the joy of parents in their children is the most holy joy of humanity.
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.