We are very concerned with the level of childhood obesity, .. We don't want this generation of young people to live fewer years than their parents. (Quote by - Mike Johanns)

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic training. (Quote by - Saul Steinberg)

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky. (Quote by - Valentina Tereshkova)

This state has put a lot of concentration on reforming the K-12 system, but we've done very little with early childhood education. We can't wait until they get to kindergarten because then we're just playing catch-up. (Quote by - Evelyn Keating)

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up. (Quote by - Uma Thurman)

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres. (Quote by - H. H. Munro)

It's during childhood that our patterns often are set. Overweight adolescents often become obese adults. (Quote by - Cynthia Ogden)

Sometimes what he says may sound to some people like cliches. But he says things, and in ways, that especially in the black community, we understand exactly what he's saying, because we've heard those things since childhood. (Quote by - Blair Underwood)

Prevention of childhood obesity needs to begin before a woman ever gets pregnant. (Quote by - Pamela Salsberry)

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. (Quote by - Contributed by: Randi)

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. (Quote by - Sam Ewing)

We're the only one of the Big Five school districts to see a decrease. Rochester is No. 1 in the state in terms of childhood poverty. The fact that we are losing aid .. is difficult to understand. I'm very concerned about the preliminary numbers. (Quote by - Superintendent Manuel Rivera)

The focal point of our long-range plan is the creation of small learning communities throughout the school district, beginning with early childhood education and continuing all the way through high school. This plan will allow us to reduce school sizes throughout the district and remain at the forefront of today's cutting-edge practices. (Quote by - Stanley Sanger)

Early childhood education has been stated to be the most effective economic development tool available to states. It's time to recognize that as we are seeing more buoyancy in our economy, it's time to address this, or we will fall further behind our neighboring states and our international competitors. (Quote by - Richard Alexander)

My interest in the potency of fear comes from my Taiwanese childhood in which fear of ghosts was used to shape my values. (Quote by - Ed Pien)

The events of childhood do not pass, but repeat themselves like seasons of the year. (Quote by - Eleanor Farjeon)

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods. (Quote by - Elizabeth Taylor)

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)

Witches steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings. (Quote by - Robert Burton)

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. (Quote by - Richard Henry Dana)

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

The story gives us back that which many of us have lost within ourselves -- our childhood innocence. (Quote by - Robert Morrow)

For over thirty years, public health advocates have urged companies to stop marketing junk food to children. Even as rates of childhood obesity have soared, neither Viacom nor Kellogg has listened. We can no longer stand by as our children's health is sacrificed for corporate profits. (Quote by - Susan Linn)

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)