Quotes about child
children opportunity giving
In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives. Frank Pittman
children father men
Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.
children passion boys
The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his masculinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.
children character passion
Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.
children
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne. George Herbert
children
He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.
children behinds
A child correct behind and not before.
children building marrying
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
children noses
Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.
children cows rich
A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
children white daddy
What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back and say, "My daddy was being arrested at the White House fence and booed off commencement stages. He was trying." Chris Hedges
children opportunity community
All of us basically want the same things: opportunity for our children, and prosperity for our families and communities. Christine Gregoire
children generations legacy
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
children my-children my-time
When I'm not working, my time is really about my children. Christine Lahti
children thinking long
I want you forever, Kate. I want to grow old and have you here in my arms. I want children. I've wanted you for so long. I don't think that's about to change. Christine Feehan
childhood together needs
If you need to talk about your childhood, you’re safe with me. If you need to break into a million pieces, I’m right here, Lev. I’ll find them all, I’m good at details, and I’ll put you back together. You’re safe here.
children ideas giving
Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look ? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it.
children passion married
Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children. Christiane Amanpour
children gun thinking
In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
children men sound
And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.
children responsibility alive
If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
children hard-work doors
I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.
children care felicity
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
children flower sun
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
childhood waiting cameras
I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got. Christa B. Allen
children four want
I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners. Chrissy Teigen
children abuse secret
It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret. Chris Witty
children book tv-shows
Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it. Chris Van Allsburg
children imagination magic
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
children past thinking
As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. Chris Ware
children grandmother people
I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.
childhood able royalty
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties. Chris Patten
children school
I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally. Chris Pine