Quotes about chi
children believe glorious
There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future. Jasmine Guy
children people listening
You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.' Janet Jackson
children fool bait
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools. Jane Welsh Carlyle
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
children nuclear four
Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.
children fall writing
Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'
children expression silence
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased. Anton Chekhov
children able needs
I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness. bell hooks
children names silence
This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?
children thinking knows
Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.
children commitment eye
It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life. Arundhati Roy
children men principles
I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian childs existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger. Ariel Sharon
children party plums
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. Anthony Trollope
children believe preparation
We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.
children thinking steps
If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again. Diane Cilento
children bed parental
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
children wall west
I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children. Diane Abbott
children writing brain
Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once. Diana Wynne Jones
children laughing joy
One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh Demi Lovato
children calm classroom
Happy, calm children learn best Daniel Goleman
children feelings emotion
The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.
children thinking brave
I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen. Daniel Handler
children book thinking
Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.
children sunday thinking
In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there. Dana Delany
children people tree
People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table. Connie Willis
children responsibility people
You become responsible for a human being, and a lot of people talk about how they've never felt love like this before. You hear all these things before you have a child, and they're all kind of true. It's just dealing with the overwhelming responsibility of like I'm the protector of this child that affected me the most. Cobie Smulders
children actors graves
If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave. Clark Gable
children book thinking
We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of. Ricky Gervais
children decided
At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories. Umberto Eco
children people would-be
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...' Brian Eno
children boys hair
[My hair] creates this Tarzanesque, likeable bad-boy image. It says, 'I am a wild child. I will take you on a Harley ride, then make passionate love to you. And should you be attacked by a lion or an idiot at a bar, I will protect you.' Bret Michaels
children cities mad
The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children. Bret Easton Ellis