Quotes about child
children
Children, to be illustrious is sad. Howard Nemerov
children artist psychics
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself. Howard Gardner
children teaching reality
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system. Howard Gardner
children cutting appreciate
Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori Howard Gardner
children mind world
I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place Howard Gardner
children different way
We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there. Howard Gardner
children culprit ashamed
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence. Hosea Ballou
children grief compassion
The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. Hosea Ballou
children silly voice
I've been doing silly voices since I was a child. Hank Azaria
childhood want behinds
Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind. Jean Cocteau
childhood quality cost
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition. Jean Cocteau
children mad solitude
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world. Jean Cocteau
children done artistic
A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done. George Carlin
children loner bother
I was a loner as a child. I had an imaginary friend - I didn't bother with him. George Carlin
children blow flawless
Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by the time the future arrives, they won't be children anymore, so blow me! George Carlin
children men cases
Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do. George Carlin
children humor breakfast
The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work. George Carlin
children taught should
Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear. George Carlin
children thinking law
I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach. George Carlin
children greed hunger
In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read. Gene Roddenberry
children self politician
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves. Garry Wills
children heart past
But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes great effort. And this child, who has been blind to his past, but his heart still beats for the thrill of the race, this child's soul awakens. And a new champion walks among us. Garth Stein
children distance kids
When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures. Garry Winogrand
children vacation serious
If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation. Garry Winogrand
children friendly six-months
The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months and then I can have six months off. And then I can work for six months and have six months off. Gal Gadot
children focus
When you have children, that's your main focus. Gail Porter
children giving
The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence. Gail Porter
children self order
children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. Gail Sheehy
children slave be-a-slave
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave. Frederick Douglass
children coffee thinking
It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be alive, if you can, all through this day - today - of your life. What's to be done? What's to be done? Follow your feet. Put on the coffee. Start the orange juice, the bacon, the toast. Then go wake up your children and your spouse. Think about the work of your hands. Live in the needs of the day. Frederick Buechner
children remember be-careful
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by. Frederick Buechner
children remembrance things-to-do
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. Frederick Buechner
children prayer air
My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're traveling in the air the plane not crash, things like that. Frederick Buechner