The first years of a child's life are too important for a child's future - their development, earnings, behavior, and health - for anyone to ignore.
Is there anything more important than a child?
Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.
When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.
Everyone's got to be for a child to have a home and love. I mean I don't know anyone who would be against that.
Children are not ‘those children’; they are our children.
I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
After all, by providing early access to medicine, nutrition and stimulation, early childhood development creates lifelong improvements in health, cognitive development, school achievement, and social equality.
Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers.
The Lourie Center is an important model to consider...(in) mental health care... It is imperative that we use this knowledge to help ensure that every young child in our society has the opportunity to get an emotionally healthy start in life.
To give every child a fair chance to succeed, we need to give them the best possible start in life. For far too many that isn't happening.
Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life.
As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, But our worst crime is abandoning the children, Neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, His blood is being made, And his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.'
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.
I was rather a fat little boy.
You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?
Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive—or don’t.
Kids should be able eat and have health care.
We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.
As we confront the child obesity crisis, advergames that promote unhealthy foods to kids are a real cause for concern.
Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
