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I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled
— Alice Hoffman
I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.
— Andy Stanley
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
— William Temple
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
— Henri Nouwen
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
— John F. Kennedy
For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.
— Stanley Hauerwas
I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
— Alice Walker
America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.
— Stephen Colbert
Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
— Maya Angelou
If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.
— Bishop TD Jakes