Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

I am a son, husband and father of two children. I have to take care of their needs and concerns.

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

Without education, you really can't dream as a child.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.

Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.

Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.

A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

Our family has been honored to serve our state and nation. Like many American families, we have been fortunate and blessed to raise three wonderful children and put them through college while doing work that we love.

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

Historically, girls have not been encouraged to be scientists, to be explorers, and there's a social kind of constraint, of course. Having the responsibility, a disproportionate part of the responsibility, for caring for families, caring for children. I know this challenge from firsthand experience because I have three children and four grandsons.And some of the time I have spent as a scientist and as an explorer has meant choosing to not be with my children and grandchildren as much as I might otherwise have done had I not been a scientist, an explorer.

The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media. Similarly you look at those blacks that have gone on to college or finished college, the incarceration rate is some tiny fraction of what it is among those blacks who have dropped out of high school. So it’s not being black; it’s a way of life. Unfortunately, the way of life is being celebrated not only in rap music, but among the intelligentsia, is a way of life that leads to a lot of very big problems for most people.

You should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.