Being Quote by Carol Bellamy

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage…

— Steven Pinker

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.”

— Aldous Huxley

I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.

— Mike DeWine

Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should…

— Ban Ki-moon

NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools…

— Bill Maher

When you're making a decision that involves your children a certain amount of clarity comes with it.

— Holly Willoughby

“Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact…

— The Mirror of Maybe

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this…

— Susan Estrich

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

— Marian Wright Edelman

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

— Jane Austen