Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.
I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.
The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.
I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!
There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.
Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
