Quotes about chi
children quality wish
If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness. Benjamin Spock
children believe people
Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society. Benjamin Spock
children lying parent
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them. Bertrand Russell
children army land
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation. Bernard Cornwell
children comforting age
Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome – and even comforting – than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know. Carolyn Porco
children want
I really do want to have a child. Carrie Ann Inaba
children effort matter
The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them. Carlos Castaneda
children men reader
We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man. C. S. Lewis
children men beast
We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child. C. S. Lewis
children cat prejudice
Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice. Agnes Repplier
children book thinking
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves. Agnes Repplier
children reading parent
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness. Agnes Repplier
children successful wife
It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children? Aasif Mandvi
children father responsibility
As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities. Alan Thicke
children brain mind
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain. Alan Turing
children two half
I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives, Chesley Sullenberger
children growing my-children
One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing. Chesley Sullenberger
children careers clothes
There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics. Cheryl James
children responsibility thinking
I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions Cheryl Ladd
children race sky
If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
children believe names
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him. Charles Lamb
children parent serious
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. Charles Lamb
childhood milk praise
A babe is fed with milk and praise. Charles Lamb
children husband cheer
How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband! Charles Lamb
children law political
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. Charles Lamb
children men long
The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came in too close to dawn to wake you, though I was tempted. Your house is full of strange men. A fairy upstairs and a little child downstairs- but as long as there's not one in my lady's chamber, I can stand it". Charlaine Harris
children college years
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. Chaka Fattah
children cost debt
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures. Chaka Fattah
children thinking escaping
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me. Charlie Hunnam
children knives taught
These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up. Charles Manson
children war rocks
You can take a pile of rocks and use them to build a house, or you can take the same pile and start a war. Tell children not to throw rocks, make rules against picking up rocks, and then make them mad. Keep projecting what not to do and you make the thought in their brains of what can and will be done. Charles Manson
children knowledge learning
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child Charles Handy
children simple profound
The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches. Charles Hodge