Quotes about children
children drunk childhood
A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will. Charles Baudelaire
children heart two
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
children weather singing
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings. Chantal Kreviazuk
children cutting people
The Presidents proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent. Chaka Fattah
children college years
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
children cost debt
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.
children home actors
I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home. Charlie McDermott
children bops jazz
Bop is no love-child of jazz. Charlie Parker
children thinking escaping
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me. Charlie Hunnam
children thinking compassion
I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death early and it can be a very troubling thing. We're all in this continuum: I'm this age now, and if I live long enough I'll be that age. I was 20 once, I was 10, I was 4. People who are 20 now will be 50 one day. They don't know that! They know it in the abstract, but they don't know it. I'd like them to know it, because I think it gives you compassion. Charlie Kaufman
children wife influence
If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters! Charlie Munger
children divorce class
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. Charles Simic
children school home
I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home. Charles Mathias
children believe humility
Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn’t it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don’t feel very precious? Bill Johnson
children our-world government
Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up. Betty Williams
children home play
We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, lives at home, at work and at play to be lives of joy and peace.
children world carnage
In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue
children believe hard-times
I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.
children memorable ease
The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment. Beverly Sills
children book people
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. Beverly Cleary
children book want
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
children growing-up growing
What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
children book children-book
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.
children want grownups
Children want to do what grownups do.
children writing giving
I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
children book goes-on
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
children thinking careers
I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both. Betty White
children drama destiny
The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better. Beyonce Knowles
children destiny clothing-line
My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line.
children destiny sick
I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.
children motherhood four
When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.
children destiny lists
Destiny's Child will always be No.1 on my list.
children destiny high-heels
As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny's Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn't walk in them. We couldn't keep our knees straight, but we learned.