Children Quote by Marlee Matlin

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works,

— Newt Gingrich

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

— Chely Wright

In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have…

— Alfie Kohn

Having a decent place to live is fundamental for families.

— Brian Lara

“We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow up to…

— Germaine Greer

There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic…

— Gwen Ifill

Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people,…

— Gretchen Whitmer

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of…

— Anonymous

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs…

— Al Sharpton

Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average quality. (We'd…

— Bob Frank

Poverty damages the educational potential of children, whether through stress or poor diet, while overcrowded, poor-quality housing has the same impact too.

— Owen Jones