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• Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can’t explain it. They really can’t translate feeling because they’re not part of it. That’s why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.

  Bill Evans

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Reason

• Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

  Frank Pittman

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Believe, Compunction

• We’re not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people.

  Paul Castellano

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Convenience

• So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off – and if you don’t, you’re a fool. You’re earning all this money to support children whom you then don’t see, which is absurd.

  Paul Bettany

  Topics in Children, Money

• We’re not raising children with the love that we need to.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Children, Love

• All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

  Paul Auster

  Topics in Children, Money

• Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.

  Bill Bixby

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Parents

• I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

  Patti LaBelle

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Shy

• A big part of my decision is not made about whether I’m able to coach in the NHL or if I’m ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it’s about my family, it’s about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.

  Patrick Roy

  Topics in Children, Decision, Family

• Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

  Beverly Cleary

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Pleasure

• What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

  Beverly Cleary

  Topics in Children

• I named all my children after flowers. There’s Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.

  Bert Williams

  Topics in Children

• The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there’s always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Attention

• Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

  Patrick Buchanan

  Topics in Children, Evolution

• When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Women

• We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Children, Nature, Society

  Tags in Playing

• What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

  David Suzuki

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Happy, Live, Healthy

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  Patricia Castle Richardson

  Topics in Children, Work

  Tags in Hollywood

• I know it’s a lot harder for women who don’t have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don’t want to lose being a primary parent to them, you’re still in the game.

  Patricia Castle Richardson

  Topics in Children, Money

  Tags in Women

• From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

  Bernard Berenson

  Topics in Children, Life