Quotes about children
children night president
The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that". Emo Philips
children upside-down small-child
I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.
children history race series taught
The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a series of race murders Sigmund Freud
children respect teach themselves
The first thing you should teach your children is respect; respect for yourself, themselves and others.
children house leave missed people quiet remain shot sign slug struck typical
You can see this is a typical neighborhood and there are children in this neighborhood. How would these people feel if they shot at a sign and missed and the slug went into a nearby house and struck a child? Let's leave the drive-bys to the big cities. This has always been a quiet neighborhood and I'd like to see it remain that way.
children hair people
The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child. Emmylou Harris
children home childhood
My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal. Emmeline Pankhurst
children fighting men
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.
children fighting men
If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.
children toxic humans
There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you. James Coburn
children thinking play
The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse. James Chanos
children men long
We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England. James Connolly
children practice consideration
It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration. James Cash Penney
children men maturity
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day! Napoleon Bonaparte
children father heart
To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
children believe thinking
I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.
children men excellence
Men, in general, are but great children.
children parent done
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
children giving victory
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
children women army
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
children ovaries problem
I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming. Odette Annable
children giving parent
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
children parent lasts
Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.
children fire waiting
The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.
children war thinking
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.
children dark years
Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!
children flower pieces
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. Og Mandino
children believe should-have
Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.
children reading science
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. Norman Spinrad
children three needs
My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad. Norman Wisdom
children work thinking
Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for. Northrop Frye
children mean simple
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.
children divorce cynical
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. Norman Mailer