Quotes about child
children order ideas
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature. Hugh Jackman
children light two
I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
children knowledge garden
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven. Horace Mann
children school two
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
children fables alphabet
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
children mean bread-of-life
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.
children grief heart
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
children growing-up law
Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.
children destiny people
Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children. Herbert Read
children animal race
In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon his cattle. The white race cannot survive without dairy products. Herbert Hoover
children office nerd
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
children add alive
Children add to the wonder of being alive.
children hydrogen-bomb soul
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
children advancement youth
The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.
children hands race
Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.
children women responsibility
In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral andspiritual welfare of our people. The participation of women in elections has produced a keener realization of the importance of these questions and has contributed to higher national ideals. Moreover, it is through them that our national ideals are ingrained in our children.
children responsibility epidemics
Reports to the Surgeon General... represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate-are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.
children debt bless
Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.
children people records
It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record. F. Scott Fitzgerald
children eye old-things
The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.
children echoes parent
I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.
children rich great-gatsby-book
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
children giving wife
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third – before long the best lines cancel out – and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true
children ohio quality
Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
children play strange
Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.
childhood phrases veils
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom. Evelyn Waugh
children sensual feckless
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
children ridiculous pleasure
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
children parent childhood
Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood. Evan Esar
children growing-up latin
Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.
children night giving
Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult. Eugene Ionesco
childhood moments astonishing
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.
childhood world adults
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.