Quotes about children
children thinking chinese
Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China. Manmohan Singh
children real mean
Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being. Mamie Van Doren
children moving thinking
There's simply no way you can tell a woman you work with that you disapprove of her relationship with her adult child, no matter how much you think it would be better for him to move out. Mallory Ortberg
children people secret
Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.
children grandparent closeness
You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.
children race focus
A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race, should be on nurturing and protecting your child from bigotry, not deploying him or her as an anti-racist Mr. Fix-It.
children pregnancy want
There are alternatives to pregnancy if you want another child.
children drinking school
In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom. Mandy Moore
children men productive-life
By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
children years pneumonia
Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
children real men
It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important. Malcolm Turnbull
children struggle mean
Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
children school grandmother
When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.
children enemy educate
Never allow your enemies to educate your children.
children enemy fool
Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
children hate teaching
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?
children equality men
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality. Mahatma Gandhi
children parent firsts
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
children years religion
In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
children moral-development intellectual
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
children taught despise
Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
children land two
Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables. John Adams
children government purpose
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of youth should be accommodated to that form of government under which they live; forasmuch as it makes exceedingly for the preservation of the present government, whatsoever it be.
children sorrow genius
Genius is sorrow's child.
children punishment educated
Children must be educated by love, not punishment. James Joyce
children play desire
I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
children educational school
The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board. James S. Coleman
children school successful
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
children school levels
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
children school should-have
I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.
children school opportunity
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.
children kids adults
Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to. James Roday
children pain temptation
Hasn't there ... been a little too much zeal in our reproof of children and friends for yielding to the temptations we ourselves find it most difficult to resist? We punish where we can least afford to sympathize. Of all the horrors of the daily news, it seems hardest to imagine the kind of cruelty that is intensified by the pain of its victims, but whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer. James Richardson