Quotes about child
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!
children chocolate pieces
It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.
children animal too-much
When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings.
childhood betrayed boyhood
In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed. George William Russell
childhood literature rediscovery
Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood. Georges Bataille
children men reason-why
The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children? George Whitefield
children long people
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people. George Will
children law immigration
If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.
children chaos program
All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.
children men competition
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. George Sand
children moving thinking
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years, and that, too with sur-prising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.
childhood triumph incomparable
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?
children grief america
She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief. George Saunders
childhood may gothic
So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.
children people upset
First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general. Jenji Kohan
children phones people
People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone. Jeffery Deaver
children parent ambitious
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves? Jeffrey Archer
children school saving-up
When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition. Jeff Raikes
children cutting order
When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I was eight years old, I would cut and change the order of the images and that's how I created films that subsequently I recorded and projected and showed my friends. So I already took my first steps in 3D when I was eight years old. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
children kids imagination
When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.
children law
Right... is the child of law. Jeremy Bentham
children vitamins rich
Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins. Jennifer Egan
children powerful father
Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Jeff Greenfield
children heart and-love
When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them. Jean Vanier
children hero secret
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.
children self broken
Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.
children childhood age
But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie). Jean de La Fontaine
children forget clock
With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before Jhumpa Lahiri
children heart names
She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.
children years people
Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children. Gro Harlem Brundtland
children stupidity parent
This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach. Groucho Marx