Quotes about child
children sea swim
When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life. P. L. Travers
children book maturity
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one .
children book men
Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.
children real world
There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.
children men needs
Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain. P. T. Barnum
children laughing exhibitions
I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.
children brave secret
Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives. P. D. James
childhood prison appeals
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
children parenting happy-kid
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
children islands treasure
Every island to a child is a treasure island.
children divorce pawns
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. P. J. O'Rourke
children real ideas
The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.
children vegetables
Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.
children hate reality
Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state. Ozzy Osbourne
children broken insanity
A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.
children fall future
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
children humorous ice-cream
She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream. P. G. Wodehouse
children two dollars
I wouldn't have a face like that,' proceeded the child, with a good deal of earnestness, 'not if you gave me a million dollars.' He thought for a moment, then corrected himself. 'Two million dollars!' he added.
children humble good-luck
Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.
children men promise
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man. Ovid
children only-child youngest-child
I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child. Paul Nurse
childhood comedy bones
Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood. Paul O'Grady
children aunt tunes
I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.
children giving world
The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them. Paul Newman
children forced remove school
I am now forced to remove one of my children from school and move my family. Michelle Malkin
children feared safety wife
I feared for my safety as well as the safety of my wife and children.
childhood ingrained moving spent spot stand stuck total
I don't want to be stuck in one spot. My childhood was spent moving around. We were total nomads. Like gypsies, just moving from one place to another all the time. That's kind of ingrained into my psyche, into my being. I couldn't stand being in one spot for too long. Johnny Depp
children collection delivering expecting films middle movies parents people point points prism represent seeing shared sitting table talking taught teachers telling ten
I don't think this collection of films represent everything. We're not delivering a shared point of view. These movies are all so different from each other. We all look at a movie through a prism of everything our parents and teachers taught us and what our children are telling us. You can't make a movie expecting everyone will have the same reaction. Ten people seeing 'Munich' will come out with 10 different points of view. It was always that way, sitting around the Passover table talking about the Middle East. Steven Spielberg
child depends left papers performance shred taxpayers teachers tests
I don?t think the taxpayers in the Pottsgroves want to pay teachers to shred papers when so much depends on the district?s performance on things like the PSSA tests and No Child Left Behind, Kathy Baker
child children court given life wondering
He's not a psychopath. He's an abused child who comes before this court wondering how much more has to go on in his life before he's given the same opportunities as other children and adults.
children dress
How I dress my children is my decision.
child dead horrific knowing lawn stand
How horrific it is to stand somewhere, anywhere, on a lawn ... not knowing if your child is dead or alive.
children clear generation opportunity path
However, it was made clear to the first generation of Canadian-born children that the path to opportunity was through education. Sidney Altman