Quotes about children
children attitude learning
A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude. Willa Cather
children blow hands
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
children husband grandmother
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.
children thinking decision
I think for me, as a parent, once my children are thoroughly informed, they can make the decisions that they want to make. The only thing that I demand is a complete comprehension [of the information]. Will Smith
children men views
I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
children father years
I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.
children long vision
As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
children believe long
We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children. Warren Buffett
children mistake things-in-life
Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.
children games play
When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play. Vladimir Kramnik
children character hands
I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.
children kids suffering
What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did. Vivienne Westwood
children good-person bigs
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
children rain snow
You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s. Vincent Van Gogh
children eight years
Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. Vladimir Lenin
children hate hatred
We must hate - hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.
children years giving
Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
children business moving
One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business... Wayne Dyer
children parenting your-children
Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.
children believe self
After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.
children needs stories
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest. Walter Benjamin
children ducks lakes
For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed? Virginia Woolf
children average numbers
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
children house anxiety
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
children growing-up long
They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.
children powerful home
The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President's attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein? ... If you ask a question like: do you support the dropping of powerful explosives upon the heads of totally innocent men, women and children, demolishing their homes and their schools and their hospitals, are you in favour of that? That would change the answers, I think, quite a bit. William Blum
children tasks common
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. William Bennett
children teaching school
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
children adults example
There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.
children educational school
If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
children real mean
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
children eye people
The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.
children character needs
If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.