Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

I really like children to watch my movies.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Children are all foreigners.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

Children make your life important.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.