Quotes about children
children wife terrorist
If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them. Robin Hayes
children want taught
The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have. Robin G. Collingwood
children growing-up lying
As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.
children writing assumption
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. Robin Hobb
children men tree
The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.
children italian naked
The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66. Robert Venturi
children war grief
When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and blazon from sea to sea In the name of the Dead the banner of Peace ... that will be Victory. Robert W. Service
children flower fall
With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth. He knew the birds of the countryside better than the old men, and the flowers far better than the children. Robert Wilson Lynd
children past thinking
Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.' Robert Winston
children medicine risk
Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.
children important important-things
Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.
children believe eggs
I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
children childhood hunters
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?
children numbers giving
Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000.
children ambition thinking
When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.
children technology people
Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.
children television influence
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'
children thinking world
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
children support empowering
Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. Robert Rodriguez
children growing-up people
I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life. Robert Redford
children people desire
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say they desire nor, especially in the case of children, with their best interests. Robert Neelly Bellah
children moving culture
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent, ontogeny repeats phylogeny, because children go through something like the same thing.
children home parent
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
children men years
If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads. Robert Mugabe
children flower giving
If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees. Robert Motherwell
children ocean bridges
... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner. Robert Musil
children dad kids
I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child. Robert Stromberg
children censorship remember
But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had to go from there. I don't remember what I changed it to. Duvall is just excellent in it. Robert Towne
children fate compassion
The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced. Robert Scheer
children innocent attractive
I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive. Robert Schumann
children thinking parent
I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. Robert Smith
children mindset born
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
children destiny giving
Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way. Satish Kumar