Children Care Quotes

#1. The highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.

Eda LeShan

#2. Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

Asne Seierstad

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

Susan L. Taylor

#4. [Among the Arapeh ... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community ... ] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.

Margaret Mead

#5. I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

J. B. Pritzker

#6. My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#7. Communism is what Karl Marx hoped could be an economic scheme for making industrialized nations take as good care of people, and especially of children and the old and disabled, as tribes and extended families used to do, before they were dispersed by the Industrial Revolution.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. So, given what we learn about the word "faithful" in the Scriptures, if we are to be faithful parents we will be steadfast, trustworthy, and true concerning our commitment to God and his Word.
We will also be like God, reliable in our parental care and in our commitment to our children's good.

Martha Peace

#9. We are inconsistent, said Mother Teresa, to care about violence, and to care about hungry children in places like India and Africa, and yet not care about the millions who are killed by the deliberate choice of their own mothers.

Philip Yancey

#10. Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.

Marian Wright Edelman

#11. I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career
every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.

Jen Lancaster

#12. No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.

Hillary Clinton

#13. I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you.

Helen Smith

#14. Motherless mothers with a history of caretaking experience, usually for sick mothers or younger siblings when they were still children themselves, said that the round-the-clock nature of infant and toddler care sometimes brought up familiar emotions from the past.

Hope Edelman

#15. Women taking care of children ... it makes sense to pay them for that work ... they should be paid for it, but that requires tax payments. And the same is true about protection of the environment.

Noam Chomsky

#16. I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

Barbara Bush

#17. These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The minute you crown, you're on your own.

Gwen Moore

#18. Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity. It is up to us, as adults, to see that they are properly taken care of and given all the love and attention they deserve. If we did so, I have no doubt our world would be drastically different and much more humane.

Laurence Overmire

#19. You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction.

Rose George

#20. Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

Brian Reynolds Myers

#21. The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting-there is no hand like mother's. Nor does its tender care diminish through the years.

Thomas S. Monson

#22. I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.

Richard Simmons

#23. Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.

Matt Walsh

#24. O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

Phoebe Cary

#25. They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

H.L. Mencken

#26. There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.

Michael Scott

#27. The worth of a culture, in his opinion, could be boiled down to one thing - how well that culture took care of its weakest members, particularly its women and children.

Brad Thor

#28. We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Bill Moyers

#29. A hungry man thinks only about how he can feed his family today. He doesn't care that how he feeds them today destroys his children's tomorrow.

Steven Gould

#30. I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me ...

Trisha Goddard

#31. Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.

Robertson Davies

#32. Jesus loved everyone, but he loved children most of all. Today we know that unborn children are the targets of destruction. We must thank our parents for wanting us, for loving us and for taking such good care of us.

Mother Teresa

#33. We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone - Trust God to take care of them.

Stormie O'martian

#34. If I give a book as a gift, it is invariably a children's book with beautiful artwork and a simple text. I adore the feel of them, the care taken in the artwork, and the high visual stimulation that sets off the simple but often powerful message the text conveys.

Kim Harrison

#35. Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ...

Muse

#36. We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

Max Born

#37. Conception is a blessed event.
Fertilization is divine intervention.
The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter.
The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. It is the responsibility of parent to love and care for their children.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. As children grow older, the care of parents grows greater. They are afraid of their children falling when young, and of worse than falls when they are older.

Thomas Watson

#40. I just want to grow old with a man who takes care of me, and I want to eventually have kids and want them to be good children to me. Just want to be treated nice and have respect.

Shakira

#41. You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and get home and still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well Republicans, I guess can do that. Because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives.

Howard Dean

#42. I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.

Larry Crabb

#43. Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

Ariel Gore

#44. Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived.

Anita Desai

#45. Mexico has shelters, which care for children trying to cross the border, who have no company with them.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#46. A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

Pope Francis

#47. Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers have. If bad guilt is a monster, good guilt is a friendly fairy godmother, yakking away in your head to keep you alert to the needs of your baby.

Jean Marzollo

#48. Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.

Gautama Buddha

#49. Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

Marianne Williamson

#50. So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children
as if justice were divisible.

Marian Wright Edelman

#51. I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.

Michael Jackson

#52. I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children.

Marianne Williamson

#53. As President, my father will change the labor laws that were put into place at a time when women were not a significant portion of the workforce. And he will focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all.

Ivanka Trump

#54. How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you 'Mama,' but 'Renata.'

Renata Tebaldi

#55. We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people the care that they need.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#56. You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

Cory Booker

#57. What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'

Michael Nutter

#58. Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.

Margaret Mead

#59. In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colours of a rainbow.

Papiya Ghosh

#60. My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

Jonas Gahr Store

#61. Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

David Suzuki

#62. Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Michael Morpurgo

#63. A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

Euripides

#64. First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

Kate Middleton

#65. Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.

Anthony Browne

#66. Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.

Nachman Of Breslov

#67. The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Barney Frank

#68. I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.

Marianne Williamson

#69. If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

Gloria Steinem

#70. Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.

Brad Warner

#71. The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Marian Wright Edelman

#72. ...in the middle of the field, Harry suddenly stopped and looked back. Mr. Chad was all alone in the creepy woods. He could take care of himself...couldn't he? Of course he could, he was a teacher.

Connie Kingrey Anderson

#73. Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

J. August Richards

#74. And now the fight continues for all orphans and children who need families who will love and care for them - until they too can all go home.

Kim De Blecourt

#75. Over the past decade, child care costs have risen twice as fast as the median income of families with children.

Sheryl Sandberg

#76. Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

Samuel Smiles

#77. You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.

Orrin Hatch

#78. We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction

Maria Montessori

#79. The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

Anna Quindlen

#80. I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Camille Paglia

#81. A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend. ... Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#82. Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.

Seth Adam Smith

#83. My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

Nel Noddings

#84. An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.

Charisse Montgomery

#85. Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who will instruct their children religiously. To commit children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves.

Timothy Dwight V

#86. As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#87. Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

Jenny McCarthy

#88. Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

Ziggy Marley

#89. There was no one to comfort the children, no one to embrace them, no one to love them. Care and control were what the dormitories were all about, not love and affection.

Ruth Hegarty

#90. These days, kids need to be sensitive and care about others. Not even fake-caring either, but they're actually expected to worry about everyone's every feeling. Children basically have to behave as no adult has behaved ever.

Bijou Hunter

#91. Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

Ron Funches

#92. What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

Rupert Murdoch

#93. Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

Michele Bachmann

#94. If We Are The Guardian Of The Flame Of Humanity ... Then We Must Care For All Of It's Children. For In It's Spirit ... They Are All Sacred!

Timothy Pina

#95. When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Horace Mann

#96. A good thing this was, and that we should be so care-free and irresponsible, enjoying every minute of every day; for it was the Easter of 1914, the last Easter of the old, easy world, and our last, as well as our first, Easter as children together in the little house I had built for happiness.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#97. I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.

Carolyn Hax

#98. To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with.

Robert Manne

#99. We don't know what will happen tomorrow, but one thing is guaranteed-God's overarching care for His children. We can be sure enough of that. In a world where nothing is sure, He is sure.

David Jeremiah

#100. What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

Abigail Adams