And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.
It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.
The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.
I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
For lots of people who became rich, they believe they earned their fortune through hard work. They don't think about society and only want to leave their fortune to their children.
A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.
I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.
