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New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.

Quotes by Alvaro Enrigue

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their...

Quotes by Alveda King

Our children need to remember to love each other, how to honor each other, their parents, God, and their neighbors.

Quotes by Alveda King

As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were...

Quotes by Allen Covert

Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

Quotes by Allen Covert

I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of those principles in children's books today.

Quotes by Allen Covert

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.

Quotes by Allen Klein

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Quotes by Allison Pearson

When I first got out of school, I went on a children's theater tour, and I went around the country a little bit that fall, and it was the first time I went to Chicago. We spend a couple of...

Quotes by Allison Tolman

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

Quotes by Allan Bloom

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Quotes by Allan Bloom

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

Quotes by Allan Houston

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

Quotes by Allegra Huston

If we could support school curricula about social class, we might discuss the full complexity of 'wealth' within the parameters of our children's educational lives. Out of these lesson plans, we might talk more about what society values - and...

Quotes by Alissa Quart

'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new brown Stride Rite Mary Janes with little purple and silver flowers when the old shoes were...

Quotes by Alissa Quart

There's no better example of how to lead a difficult employee than to have a child. You have another kind of knowledge from your children that's actually applicable outside of childbearing.

Quotes by Alissa Quart

Economically anxious, many parents see their children's accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay...

Quotes by Alissa Quart

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

Quotes by Alissa Quart

Like other elements of childhood for the precociously gifted - private or home schooling, overstructured activity, and proto-professional training - edutainment products are part of a system that divides children into haves and have-lesses.

Quotes by Alissa Quart

The list of costly services that supplement some children's public education is growing longer and now includes consultants, tutors, and test prep. That's in addition to the homework help some stay-at-home parents can afford to provide.

Quotes by Alissa Quart

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of quotes about children are on this page?
A mix - a filmmaker recalling how shocked audiences reacted to a controversial movie by grabbing their children and leaving the room, a statement about entertainers not being responsible for teaching children life lessons, thoughts on adult responsibility toward children and parents, and a personal note about raising children while working in law.
Is there a quote about parenting responsibility?
Yes, one quote describes being a grownup as assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - as it puts it - "here's the big curve" - for your parents too. For more on family roles, see the Family page.
Is there a quote about entertainment and children?
Yes, one quote argues that entertainers exist to entertain, not "to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself" - placing that responsibility squarely on parents. Browse the Father page for more on that theme.
Is there a personal story here about raising children while working?
Yes, one quote comes from someone in private law practice in New York City, describing raising children together with their husband while balancing that career.
Is there a quote about a controversial reaction involving children?
Yes - one quote recalls being "anathema in polite society" after making the film 'Last House,' with people reportedly grabbing their children and leaving the room in reaction. For more on faith and family values connected to children, see the Prayers page, or the Believe page.

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