Children's Well-Being Quotes

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news, even in the scale of other tragedies.

UNICEF is helping mothers realize their dreams for the future - a future in which the basic needs for a child's survival: food, clean water and simple health care - are guaranteed.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.

For the sake of our children, let's behave like civilized, law-abiding adults.

Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.

We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.

I've always tried to make sure that what I do really connects with the broader agenda of what my husband Barack Obama is trying to do.... But I also find that I have to be very passionate myself about the issue to be able to represent it well. One of the big issues that I've talked a lot about...is childhood health, nutrition and obesity.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.

I try so hard to be the best mom that I can be and usually I'm always thinking about how to better my son's life.

Let all children come unto me.

My dream is to keep doing the best I can to help kids, give back and make them smile.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.

There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.