Quotes about child
children thinking waiting
If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad. James Cameron
children mistake parent
I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them. Jamal Lewis
children years bored
Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied. James Agee
children couple war
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity. James A. Michener
childhood stories usual
I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read . The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy , and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again. James A. Baldwin
children stronger world
The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers - to say nothing of one's children - to live according to the world's definitions: one must find a way, perpetually, to be stronger and better than that.
children pay profit
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
children rain taken
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the 'conscience' of the civilized world.
children thinking long
We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board. Jada Pinkett Smith
children self-worth purpose
I feel that when a child has self-worth and purpose, that's what keeps them grounded.
children people looks
I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.
children school thinking
I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.
children book belief
I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child. Jacqueline Wilson
children hate despair
I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.
children soon-enough young
Soon never comes soon enough to a young child. Jacqueline Carey
children believe government
I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education. Jacqueline Novogratz
children believe humility
We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.
children growing-up men
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man. Jackie Kennedy
children women memorable
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
children responsibility done
The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.
children powerful reading
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
children rock-and-roll bye
Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye. Jackson Browne
children arguing my-family
There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves. Jack Straw
children lying desire
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. Christopher Lasch
children boys men
Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of? It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed. Christopher Isherwood
children father grateful
Everyone in Iran is perceived to be a child with a paternal authority vested in the Guardian Council and the Sufi elders. They're supposed to be grateful. They can never for a moment not be afforded this wonderful protection. The father who will never go away. The father who will never quit caring for them. Christopher Hitchens
children knowing expectations
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.
children pigs elephants
Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.
children real writing
I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?
children religion behinds
No child's behind left.
children order ideas
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea of what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge. Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.
children gossip secret
Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child. George Harrison
childhood germs excess
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem. Gaston Bachelard