Quotes about children
children spring wings
How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring? William Blake
children spring bird
Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
children heart voice
When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.
children rotting graves
He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
children men two
The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.
children abuse tears
But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
children mean responsibility
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. Wendy Wasserstein
children moon years
I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon. Wernher von Braun
children taken legacy
All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.
children home lessons
Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. Wentworth Miller
children moving growing
Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life. Werner Herzog
children character quality
Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect
children father believe
I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your children. You can believe he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man.
children ants should
The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect. Wayne Pacelle
children team roots
I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs. Wallace Shawn
children thinking understanding
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
children reality people
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
children people earth
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. Walker Percy
children people firsts
Children notice things first, people later.
children world landscape
Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards. Wallace Stegner
children punishment shame
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. Samuel Richardson
children parent world
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
children parent advice
Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
children anger prudent
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
children maturity animal
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.
children educational would-be
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
children punishment moments
Spare the rod and spoil the child. Samuel Butler
children prayer men
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
children real parent
How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
children years mind
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
children eye years
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
children would-be world
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
children race barbarians
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money Samuel Gompers