Quotes about children
children book teaching
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. Carl Sagan
children kids science
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.
children brave coward
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy. Cai Guo-Qiang
children lying people
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies. Byron Katie
children struggle mean
The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn't mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don't know how to stop.
children interpretation said
Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.
children moving space
When you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything you deserve in life is. When you’re in presence, there’s no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.
children parent sake
Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.
children grows raised
Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow. Buffy Sainte-Marie
children love-you unborn-child
When you can see your unborn children in her arms, you know you really love a woman. Bryan Adams
children childhood faults
The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for. Cesare Beccaria
children my-children building
My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites. Cesar Pelli
children looks fine
There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children . Cesare Pavese
children doe realizing
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
children believe imagination
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
children believe understanding
The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it. Catherine Crowe
children years encounters
Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult. Catherine Crier
children hands wife
Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria. Catherine Helen Spence
children kids two
Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids. Catherine Bell
children auras way
It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child. Catherine Deneuve
children afterlife actors
I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
children father thinking
I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren. Caroline Kennedy
children nice facts
When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
children our-world people
Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world. Carlos Slim
children ocean wind
Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there. Carlos Santana
children guy want
You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
children growing-up father
A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
children book people
Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
children memories heart
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
children mean littles
I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children. Campbell Scott
children artist care
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists. Camille Pissarro
children father boys
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. Camille Paglia
children race elderly
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.