#child

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#around #children #education #else #everybody

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#better #children #environment #imagine #our

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#artificial #child #find #his #i

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#because #child #could #difficult #favourites

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#called #child #collecting #decide #english

Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#argument #better #better place #boring #children

I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be going through. Especially at tricky moments when it is easier to go back and evade things rather than go forwards and confront them. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #confront #easier #especially

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#away #change #children #completion #compulsory

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#extraordinary #northern #presents #rights #situation

When you have girl children they torture you! ↗

— Pat Benatar

#girl #torture #you