Quotes about children
children kids lunch
I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself. Jolene Blalock
children looks gone
If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it. Johnny Weir
children book school
That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve. Johnny Ball
children tvs corny
There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.
children purpose looks
We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that. Johnathon Schaech
children yuppies irrelevant
I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. John Zorn
children yuppies interesting
I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. I’m not striving for happiness, I’m trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constant rethinking, and reevaluating what you’re doing, working and working until you feel it’s finished. And that’s an interesting point too, that you’ve got to know when to stop. Sometimes there’s a magical moment when everything comes together.
children kids divorce
I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce. Johnny Carson
children men two
In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children.
children doe might
Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.
children able helping
It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children. Lynn Redgrave
children unique use
We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing! Lynn Johnston
children successful opportunity
Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized. Luis Fortuno
children parent want
Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.
children wife priorities
I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice. Luis Figo
children arms legs
The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are. Luigi Pirandello
children wish may
It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery. Ludwig van Beethoven
children sorrow cost
Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.
children sacred duty
I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.
children virtue virtuous
Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.
children men air
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.
children philosophy philosophical
Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it. Ludwig Wittgenstein
children pieces paper
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?
children lying believe
The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.
children independent pride
Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent. Luc de Clapiers
children sacrifice profound
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
children heart dark
And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!
children kids chinese
Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children? Louis Sachar
children believe men
There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die. Louis Pasteur
children men greek
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God. Lord Acton
children government opposites
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
children believe giving
The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them. Jim Valvano
children moving people
We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day. Jim Wallis