Quotes about child
children voice use
I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid. Laurence Fishburne
children kids answers
The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything. Laurence J. Peter
children giving rope
Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up. Laurence J. Peter
children light hair
Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature,--may almost say, "I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now. Leigh Hunt
children growing-up blessed
Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence. Leigh Hunt
children niece kids
I dont have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think about adoption. There are so many kids at different ages and stages that need families. Lauren Velez
children philosophy school
What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your eyes, jostling in your brain like a bunch of overeager school children, about to be released on break. Will you let yourself be deluded? Will you let yourself be decieved? -"On Beauty and Falsehood," The New Philosophy, by Ellen Dorpshire Lauren Oliver
children rain hair
Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are going to turn your hair to gray. Mary keep your oars a-steady Sail away on the rising flood Keep your candle at the ready Red tides can't be told from blood. - "Miss Mary" (a common child's clapping game, dating from the time of the blitz), from Pattycake and Beyond: A History of Play Lauren Oliver
children taken darkness
It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it. Lauren Oliver
children jumping sick
Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead. - A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping. Lauren Oliver
children father mean
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before. Lafcadio Hearn
children doors wife
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors. L. Frank Baum
children book writing
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children L. Frank Baum
children littles toys
He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them. L. Frank Baum
children men civilization
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization L. Frank Baum
children taken dwarves
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old. L. Frank Baum
children law risk
Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing 'street prices' crashing down (it's estimated that a 'spoon' of heroin would cost about a quarter in the free market), thereby eradicating any incentive that criminals might have to compete with legitimate businesses, and greatly reducing if not eliminating altogether any economic reason to ' push ' drugs on children. L. Neil Smith
children people drug
We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children. L. Neil Smith
children men rifles
Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission. L. Neil Smith
children men average
If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you. L. Neil Smith
children goal wish
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. Lillian Gordy Carter
children my-children
I love all my children, but some of them I don't like. Lillian Gordy Carter
children should-have looks
Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.' Lillian Gordy Carter
children one-day charity
But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children. Lily Aldridge
children humorous kids
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates. P. J. O'Rourke
children food wine
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language. P. J. O'Rourke
children america parent
It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy. P. J. O'Rourke
children taken grateful
That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful. P. J. O'Rourke
children philosophy useless
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. P. J. O'Rourke
children genius paint
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability? Pablo Picasso
children artist
All Children are Artists Pablo Picasso
children laughter half
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child. Pablo Picasso
children artist outcomes
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers. Pablo Picasso