Quotes about child
children reinforcement negative
Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior. Jeannette Walls
children growing-up kids
No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.
children parent swim
You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
children blessing unique
Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique. Jeb Bush
children school college
Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
children expectations achieve
Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
children glasses trying
You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child. Jeaniene Frost
children cat okay
The image I'd had of myself as a child was someone I'd never be, and it was only recently that I realized it was okay to be who I was. - Cat
children kissing romance
Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.
children suffering important
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. Jim Doyle
children thinking cartoon
I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television. Jerry Lewis
children growing-up years
A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.
children thinking doctors
I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything. Jeremy Irons
children love-is creating
I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.
children optimistic views
What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice? Jennifer James
children memories fall
The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.
children believe school
There is no way to live up to your full potential in life without losing lots of things. Yet there are people who believe you can go through a lifetime without losing anything, if you would just be more careful and more thoughtful. They actually believe that a child can get through elementary school without losing a jacket, but that's impossible unless the child is very repressed.
children people causes
I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own. Jennifer Garner
children nice middle-child
I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.
children parent knows
I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love. Jennifer Hudson
children destiny world
I am the biggest Destiny's Child - Beyonce, Kelly, Michelle, all of them - fan in the world.
children integrity people
Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill. Jeff Bryant
children real like-being-alone
Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone. Jeff Buckley
children july independence
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness." Jeff Bezos
childhood bigs
Pretend was a big part of my childhood. Jeff Bridges
children nice inspiration
Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.
children way odd
Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
children kids people
You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.
children kids campaigns
I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
children issues poverty
Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
children heart men
Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done. Jean-Paul Sartre
children choices determined
I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
children father men
Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!