Alexandra Guarnaschelli Quotes

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

Children are not ‘those children’; they are our children.

I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.

No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children.

My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

All children have rights and those rights must be protected.

I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.

Boys and girls playing together: 4 lashes

Children have the right to express themselves freely.

There is no right more fundamental than the right to be born and reared with all the dignity the human person deserves.

You don’t play around with the lives of children.

Kids are important.

When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person's life.