Quotes about children
children school talking
Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues. Ward Churchill
children cancer party
Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party. Wanda Sykes
children air play
People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was told, "This is development." And I said, "That is not development, definitely not sustainable development, definitely not responsible development. People need fresh air. They can do without buildings. They can do without concrete. But they cannot do without fresh air. Wangari Maathai
children waste wasting-time
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
children dark ducks
I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind. W. G. Sebald
children thinking people
Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous... I don't think this helps us to survive... We're very species-centric... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth. W. S. Merwin
children war government
When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well W. S. Gilbert
children growing-up differences
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does. W. H. Auden
children animal faces
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
children hero history
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
children book adults
There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.
children recipes neurosis
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
children men support
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous. William Cobbett
children law voice
To see the Law by Christ fulfilled, And hear His pardoning voice Changes a slave into a child, And duty into choice. William Cowper
children learning mind
Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.
children exercise rights
There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.
children school kids
If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school. Wayne Knight
children crazy school
If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy. Wayne LaPierre
children school gun
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.
children mean phones
There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody else?" Whether that means sending something to one of my children or picking up the phone and calling a stranger who is in the hospital, I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. Wayne Dyer
children hate hatred
The problem with using force in our lives is that we always create a counterforce. For example, If you're with a child and the child says, "I hate you," which is a very low energy, and you respond with, "I hate you too," you have lowered the collective energy that you are both in, and both of you will he weakened. Whereas, if you respond to, "I hate you," with love, which is what, instinctively, we know what to do, then we can dissolve and dissipate that hatred.
children abandoned reactions
I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.
children sleep night
We are all individualized expressions of God, of oneness. But we do have personality differences. Everyone who has had more than one child knows that they come in with personalities. The moment they come in - some come in screaming, some sleep through that first night and stay peaceful the rest of their lives - you see the differences.
children laughter laughing
The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
children self enjoy-life
Once you see a child's self-image begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.
children
I don't know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life. Tracee Ellis Ross
children makeup style
I wanted Bow's hair and makeup and clothing to look like a woman who has four children, a career, and a full life. For example, she won't wear eyeshadow unless she's going out. Because it takes a lot of time to put eyeshadow on. She's a woman who has style, but it's all about functionality - she grabs stuff from her closet.
children women struggle
The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement. Velupillai Prabhakaran
children sadness blood
There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed. Vasily Grossman
children father support
My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially. Valerie Trierweiler
children training care
We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships. Van Jones
children together railroads
Way over on the railroad, Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together, Every scrapbook stuck with glue, And I'll stand beside you, Beside you, child. Van Morrison
children grateful thinking
What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not important. I took my children when they where young to Brazil, to the shanty towns with children begging. Ever since that day, I have had no problems with my children, if I buy them anything they are grateful. Uri Geller