Quotes about child
childhood parent doe
I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated. Terry Leahy
children parent vices
Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa. Terry McMillan
children healthy mind
So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons. Terry Pratchett
children parent healthy
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. Margaret Sanger
children thinking world
I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world.
children eugenics bears
No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.
children faces worst
Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love... Margaret Mitchell
children growing-up war
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. Margaret Mead
children eye intelligent
I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.
children moving games
I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.
children responsibility people
the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.
children women school
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
children past people
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
children animal welfare
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
children parent mentor
I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.
children insight recognizing
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
children heart reality
Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
children blow evil
Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those who are wrong. The first blow dealt to the enemy's children will sign the death warrant of our own.
children school learning
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
children believe responsibility
Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association.
children teaching simple
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
children sleep independent
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.
children future mean
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
children growing-up today
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
children school flying
I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school. Margaret Drabble
children business large-groups
A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives ... Margaret Halsey
children business people
the position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves ...
children men justice
It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.
children boys white
you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.
children justice democracy
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
children parent path
there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path. Margaret Fuller
children character parent
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
children hug fats
You know you are fat when you hug a child and it gets lost. Marcus Brigstocke