Quotes of: American-children Keyword

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

Eleanor Catton

Margaret Atwood was the author who took me out of children's literature and guided me towards adult literature.

Eleanor Catton

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Elizabeth Edwards

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

E. M. Forster

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

Ellen Goodman

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

Elizabeth George

Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.

Ban Ki-moon

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Ben Marcus

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

Carol Bellamy

I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.

Chaz Bono

I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.

Columba Bush

I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

Candy Crowley

Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.

Gina McKee

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.

Geraldo Rivera

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

George Bernard Shaw

Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world.

Gever Tulley

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

Helen Dunmore

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Haim Ginott

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

James Russell Lowell

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

Jim Ryun