Quotes about children
children giving childhood
My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. Gerald Durrell
children dark night
Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.
children war garden
By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.
children skins wonder
When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child. Georgina Chapman
children children-love
I love children. I've always loved children.
children quality care
There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care. Harriet Harman
children grandfather vision
When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good. Harri Holkeri
children years mistress
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress Harriet Ann Jacobs
children father lying
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach; presumptuous in him, and dangerous to the masters.
children slave-girl waiting
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.
children love-you imperfection
The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them. Harriet Lerner
children democracy littles
Your little child is the only true democrat. Harriet Beecher Stowe
children growing-up grows
Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.
children parent fairy
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.
children writing humanity
I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
children war parent
Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves. Harper Lee
children might
I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children.
children aunt missing
Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is.
children character animal
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. ~To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus
children tkam attention
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
children tkam adults
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.
children tkam answers
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
children people trying
I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money. Haley Joel Osment
children fall water
The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children. Halldor Laxness
children sunshine thinking
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that might pursue him. As a child he had stood by the seashore at Ljósavík and watched the waves soughing in and out, but now he was heading away from the sea. "Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine." Soon the sun of the day of resurrection will shine on the bright paths where she awaits her poet. And beauty shall reign alone.
children self-esteem raised
Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child. Halle Berry
children cities people
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust. Holly Lisle
children people foxes
There were 84 original episodes. It was rated No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fox Children's Network. We figured it was time to make it available to people who have never watched it. Howie Mandel
children
Children, to be illustrious is sad. Howard Nemerov
children teaching reality
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system. Howard Gardner
children culprit ashamed
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence. Hosea Ballou
children world sake
Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world. Hannah Arendt
children soul adults
I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs. Gillian Flynn