Quotes about child
children rewards surviving
Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children. Erma Bombeck
children kids fighting
... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting. Erma Bombeck
children daddy use
Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?' Erma Bombeck
children blow light
There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green. Erma Bombeck
children independence losing
Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket. Erma Bombeck
children women thinking
I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho. Erma Bombeck
children grandma responsibility
Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come. Erma Bombeck
children best-years-of-your-life people
Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having. Erma Bombeck
children keys car
When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys. Erma Bombeck
children hair phoenix
Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False. It depends on how many children the out-of-towners brought with them who kicked the back of your seat from Phoenix to Flagstaff and got their gum caught in your hair. Erma Bombeck
children needs deserve
A child needs your love most when he deserves it least Erma Bombeck
children light ideas
Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on. Erma Bombeck
children book school
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. Erma Bombeck
children real book
People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real. Erin McKean
children war forever
I am proud of my children. They will make great warriors. And I will watch over them forever. I promise. Erin Hunter
children village
It takes only one child to raze a village. Florence King
children real grandmother
Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof. Florence King
children nerves used
I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short. Florence King
children voice touching
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself. Florence Welch
children flower fall
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it. Florence Nightingale
children boys fire
I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down! Flavor Flav
childhood information able
The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. Flannery O'Connor
children age firsts
Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning. Flannery O'Connor
children shoes feet
Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes. Flannery O'Connor
childhood southern lasts
Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime. Flannery O'Connor
children book school
We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book. Fisher Ames
children want grew
As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point. Fetty Wap
children war men
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war. Fidel Castro
children heart men
If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like Che! If we wish to say how we want our children to be educated, we must say without hesitation: We want them to be educated in Che’s spirit! If we want the model of a man, who does not belong to our times but to the future, I say from the depths of my heart that such a model, without a single stain on his conduct, without a single stain on his action, is Che! Fidel Castro
children kids concerts
I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right. Fiona Apple
children grandfather great-grandfather
Did your great-grandfather have any children? Fern Britton
children blessed government
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert Hoover
children eye school
In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes. Henry Louis Gates