Quotes about child
children home people
The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen. Alan Watts
children littles actors
Actors are frightened little children. Alan Rosenberg
children hate thinking
I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it. Alan Rickman
children book phones
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
children dark sky
Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Alan Moore
children roaches heroin
I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.
children struggle mean
What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?
children selfish taken
I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.
children littles young
Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off. Alan Jay Lerner
children writing speak
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
children writing years
There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
children people politics
Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below? Alan Jackson
children work hero
There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.
children father book
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands. Alan Bradley
children writing ideas
Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
children grass
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? Alan Bennett
children humanity cheesy
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
children artist parent
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
children parent assuming
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
children kids body
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20. Alan Alda
children hate names
I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.… This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope.… Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem giants who will stand up for our children. Al Sharpton
children humble careers
At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick. Al Pacino
children artist crayon
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. Al Hirschfeld
children people listening
It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things. Al Jarreau
children islam generations
One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam. Akhmad Kadyrov
children narrative information
It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader. Akhil Sharma
children believe pay-the-price
Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. Akhenaton
children ignorance reality
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public. Akira Kurosawa
children growing-up learning
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned. Akio Morita
children eye sea
Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
children giving infinite
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children.
children heart soul
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.
children son world
But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.