Quotes about child
children optimism forlorn
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive. Mason Cooley
children power innocence
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
children parent doctrine
Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.
children ignorance terror
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.
children parent natural
Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.
children self adults
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
children use way
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
children parent auditions
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
children parent trouble
Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.
children remember
No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.
children teaching character
Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
children parent age
The children of childish parents age quickly.
children believe would-be
We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami Mary Landrieu
children yankee-stadium world
Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver. Mary Karr
children mean epidemics
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS. Marvin Olasky
children heart noses
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose. Mary Antin
children noses sides
You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.
children earth robots
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children. Marvin Minsky
children laughter giving
I'm totally aware of how lucky I am. I have health, family, children. I do work that gives me total joy and allows me to make a living, and maybe, if I'm lucky enough, I'll feel I've fulfilled a little bit of service to society because I brought other people some laughter. Martin Short
children fire people
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such break-neck speed. Martin Van Buren
children slavery child-labor
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. Michael Moore
children real hands
A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp. Michael Frayn
children restaurants approach
A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf. Michael Gambon
children cowboy thinking
For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.
children mean home
Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents. Michael Gove
children school years
One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.
children school years
Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
children support childhood
I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.
children school play
It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.
children men people
As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.
childhood parent hard
I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me. Michael Grant
children believe ambition
We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared. Michael Chabon
children pain parenting
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.