Quotes about children
children thinking nuts
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. Rose Macaulay
children hippie burning
Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s. Ronald Steel
children father insult
I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children. Ronan Farrow
children long phrases
I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future. Romeo LeBlanc
children war reality
It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldierMan has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity's own future: its children.
children cake tough-times
Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it. Ron Ben-Israel
children thinking careers
I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children. Ron Darling
children get-well differences
When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working. Romola Garai
children adults expected
We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.
children writing years
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. Umberto Eco
children thinking ideas
I think children need to be nurtured for what they are as opposed to what you want them to be. I think that's when those ideas come into your head of like, What should I feel in this moment? It's because someone told you, "Your instinct was incorrect." And you're like, Why? Why is that wrong? Tyler Blackburn
children differences abuse
I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse. Tyler Perry
children past bridges
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it. Truman Capote
children men giving
If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give. Tryon Edwards
children book hands
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.
children thinking tough
I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. Troy Polamalu
children way folks
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.
children laughter loneliness
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.
children book writing
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
children self careers
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale. Trinny Woodall
children taken bombs
I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me ... Trisha Goddard
children wwe parent
So parents, get your children's permission to watch! Triple H
children kids play
I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good. Travis Barker
children kids nannies
I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.
children my-children obsessed
I'm obsessed with my children.
children adults temples
Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult. Totie Fields
children doors together
Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.
children two house
I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down. Toyin Odutola
children mars frank
Frank Zhang: lumbering klutz, child of Mars, part-time pachyderm. Rick Riordan
children clothes underwear
Bes had indeed put on his ugly outfit. He climbed onto the roof of the limbo and stood there, legs planted, arms akimbo, like superman-exept with only the underwear. I wasn't sure what to say except: "Put some clothes on!" "These children are under my protection," Bes insisted. "I don't know you," I said, "I never met you before today." "Nonsense. You expressly asked for my attention." "I didn't ask for the Speedo Patrol!
children heart world
The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child. Rick Dees
children want
I don't want to have children...I want to date them! Richard Dean Anderson
children doe should
I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked. Richard Dawson