A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder. – Stephen King
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. – Stephen Covey
The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better. – Wayne Dyer
Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents – our children – healthy. – Wendy Davis
I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children. – Tim Allen
When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I’m so much more sensitive to children that aren’t my own. – Sam Trammell
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. – Wade Davis
For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that’s where all the joy came from as well. – Steve Carell
Adults sometimes think children don’t think. That’s what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe. – T’Keyah Crystal Keymah
I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it’s hugely different. – Story Musgrave
Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are more productive. More productive economies mean greater stability in developing countries and improved security in the West. – Seth Berkley
Children don’t run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games. – Toyo Ito
The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity. – Wayne Dyer
I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn’t want to bring up their children there. So they saved up money and bought a house in Plumstead, semi-detached, three bedrooms. – Tinie Tempah
I have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Native Americas: everything is Native Americans in elementary school. Do you know how many Native American dresses I’ve sewn, on and on; it’s a full yearlong study. And then never again. As journalists, we never even cover Native Americans. – Soledad O’Brien
Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum. – Shukla Bose
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. – William Godwin
You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn’t matter what party you’re in. When you call your children and you say ‘How are you?’ – and what you are really asking is, ‘Do you still have your job? And are you able to make the mortgage payment?’, That resonates across the state, not across party lines. – Sharron Angle
Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist. – William Hague
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What’s real is for my children and the people I live with. – Sting
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz
We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children. – Yoko Ono
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are. – V. S. Naipaul
Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life’s work. – Thomas S. Monson
Whenever I hear someone describe something as a ‘kids movie’ or a ‘family movie,’ it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, ‘Well, as an adult, I wouldn’t go see it by myself, because it’s purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it’s simplistic and it’s kind of easy.’ – Steve Carell
The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for. – Sojourner Truth
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract. – Talib Kweli