Quotes about child
children father teaching
Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain. Sidney Poitier
children kids cutting
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?
children parenting stories
No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child. Shirley Williams
children men gone
They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence. Sholom Aleichem
children luxury good-god
Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
children war gun
It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.
children reality rome
Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the cities in the diaspora. But I always deemed myself a child of Jerusalem, one who is in reality a native of Jerusalem. Shmuel Yosef Agnon
children cutting compassion
Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion. Sherrod Brown
children memories sibling
God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child. Sherri Shepherd
children flower writing
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower. Sherman Alexie
children fall flames
...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..." ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's "Smoke Signals
children parent ive-learned
I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
children purpose rebel
My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
children acting adults
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device. Seth MacFarlane
children dirty thinking
I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. I watch television and there's a grotesque amount of violence on almost every show. And I think my dirty brand of humor is far less destructive to a child's mentality. Seth Rogen
children believe wish
I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened. Scott Thompson
children believe magic
Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth. Scott Dixon
children giving records
Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography. Oscar Wilde
children years advice
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
children parent forgiving
Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.
children mean men
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
children gorgeous wanted
Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them. Maeve Binchy
children thrillers
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
children sides loser
I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
childhood very-happy ifs
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
children moving book
Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and come back to music, try making films and come back to music, write children's books and come back to music. Madonna Ciccone
children thinking inspire
Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.
children thinking parent
Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.
children thinking asking-questions
People don't know what Kabbalah is, and so they jump to conclusions. For me, studying Kabbalah is studying - is just - is asking questions. And I encourage all of my children to be that way, and I think people don't understand that. And so they make assumptions and they judge.
children rights offering
If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.
children catholic my-children
I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me.
children risk wish
I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me...
children juggling
It's weird juggling children in a rhinestone outfit.