Quotes about child
children heart blue
A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart sing We said Then spoke the poor dead thistle, "But I, how shall I dance?" Let your heart fly to the wind We said. Then God spoke from above "How shall I descend from the blue?" Come dance for us here in the light We said. All the valley is dancing Together under the sun, And the heart of him who joins us not Is turned to dust, to dust. Gabriela Mistral
children blood names
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today. Gabriela Mistral
children liberty want
I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value. Gabriela Sabatini
children adventure islands
In Hawaii, if you're invited to dinner, it's assumed that the children are invited as well. On the islands, no one treats children like they're not part of the conversation. People talk to children as people and include them in adventures and conversations. Gabrielle Reece
children forgiving excellent
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves Francois Fenelon
children block creativity
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension. Frank Lloyd Wright
children clever eye
People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,. Frank Dobson
children discipline doe
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell. Francois Mauriac
children needs way
Every adult needs a child to teach; it’s the way adults learn. Frank A. Clark
children parenting important
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. Frank A. Clark
children trying belief
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. Frank A. Clark
children past rebellious
The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
children men israel
In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones. George Clooney
children cake littles
I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children! Gayle King
children important problem
The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later. Geena Davis
children choices trust-me
If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? Gayle Forman
children tvs sound
I like French fries," I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie. Gayle Forman
children blessing age
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. Lois McMaster Bujold
children hands common-humanity
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched. Lois McMaster Bujold
children reality our-children
Our children change us.. whether they live or not. Lois McMaster Bujold
children birth-control care
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity. Louise Slaughter
children animal looks
God looks after children, animals and idiots. Lou Holtz
children thinking parent
Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else. Joanne Harris
child early evidence higher improved iq longer
The longer a child was in the intervention, the higher their score. There was evidence that a child's IQ could be improved with early intervention.
children growing-up acting
When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies. Hayley Mills
children
What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
children parent well-mannered
Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
children miracle pet
Miracle is the pet child of faith. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
children men age
Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
children mean giving
To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are. Hans Urs von Balthasar
children people tough-times
People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time. Hamid Karzai
children father men
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood. Gustav Stresemann
children men may
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man. John Lancaster Spalding