Quotes about children
children book color
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. Khaled Hosseini
children support healthcare
We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan.
children childhood littles
There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.
children parenting yesterday
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. Khalil Gibran
children parenting separation
The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.
children pain regret
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, bit a skin that I tear with my own hands... Yet I cannot tarry longer.
children archer arrows
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
children archer hands
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.
children rain flower
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.
children parenting archery
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
children taken men
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river. Kerry Washington
children fighting men
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. Jonathan Swift
children spring play
A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child; Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts; Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.
children real kids
I remember when I was a kid my first real confrontation with space travel was when the Challenger exploded and I remember how traumatic that was for me, because I remember watching that on the news and all the children in our class were watching. Jonathan Nolan
children college years
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease. Jonathan Raban
children writing past
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. Jonathan Sacks
children moving games
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
children thinking miracle
If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
children doctors years
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.
children parent knowledgeable
Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents. Jonathan Safran Foer
children responsibility animal
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.
children missing speak
She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.
children teaching community
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
children book hero
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
children hypocrisy parent
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.
children eye space
(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)
children my-children knows
Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.
children past might
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
children love-you past
In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".
children made our-children
We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
children reality wife
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
children matter my-children
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
children technology crime
Importance of technology is increasing every day, we must not deprive our children of technology, if we do then it's a social crime. Narendra Modi