Quotes about children
children inspire mind
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose. William Godwin
children parent sentimental
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
children parent sound
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
children long once-upon-a-time
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering. As long as you go on telling him a story, he will listen. Novelists who neglect this fundamental effect do so at their peril. They become what is known as the experimental novelist, and an experimental novel is not really a novel at all. William Golding
children father believe
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer. William Barclay
children war mean
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success. Wilhelm Keitel
children ideas political
Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft and touching emotions. Just as he could be terribly brutal in following up political ideas, so he could be humanely sensitive for the feelings of individuals, for the individual human life.
children mean fighting
This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with the most brutal means, we will shortly reach the point where the available forces are insufficient to control the area. It is therefore not only justified, but it is the duty of the troops to use all means without restriction, even against women and children, so long as it ensures success.
children study enjoyed
Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them. Wilfred Owen
children war eye
I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.
children climbing height
Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow. Wilferd Peterson
children parenthood our-children
Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.
children beaten
I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot Wayne Brady
children sunday artist
The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that is assigned to him is painful, it is a heavy cross for him to bear. Wassily Kandinsky
children book character
I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier. Washington Irving
children home parent
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
children reality men
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions. Walter Lippmann
children heart religion
The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart. Voltaire
children monsters fanaticism
Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion
children evil boredom
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."
children lying moral
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. William Feather
children book writing
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. William Steig
children intelligent sky
Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate, you will have bad time Reminder 14. William Strunk, Jr.
children men soldier
We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age. William Tecumseh Sherman
children war drinking
I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children. William Randolph Hearst
children parent adults
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead. William Landay
children elderly plight
The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal. William Levada
children echoes tree
On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree. William C. Bryant
children hands water
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. William Butler Yeats
children men wife
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
children heart eye
The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold....
children heart broken
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.
children hands law
I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.