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Child Quotes by Barack Obama
- Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an…
- People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we…
- I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a…
- My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from…
- One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
- We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the…
- We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire…
- The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future.
- Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
- And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is she from, we believe that…
- It’s not a nice-to-have—it’s a must-have. It’s time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women’s issue, and treat it like…
- The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the…
- Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an…
- What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of…
- It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see…
- At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever,…
- We have to prepare tomorrows workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
- Michelle and I want every child to have the same chance this country gave us.
- Its not a nice-to-haveits a must-have. Its time we stop treating child care as a side issue.
- Tonight, I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America.
- What makes you a man isnt the ability to conceive a child; its having the courage to raise one.
More Child Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. — James A. Baldwin
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky… — Joyce Banda
- It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into… — Tyra Banks