Quotes about children
children philosophy existentialism
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children. Norman Mailer
children real war
I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.
children grateful married
When I got married for the third time, and I had children from my other marriage there, that's what I said when it came time in the ceremony for me to say something. I said, "I'm grateful to everybody that participated, everybody that participated in my life that got me to this moment. And everything was dead-right because everything is right now." Norman Lear
children sacrifice community
The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited. Orrin Hatch
children blow giving
You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.
children men rights
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men Orson Pratt
children heart charity
The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way. Oscar de la Renta
children years able
I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me. Orson Welles
children adventure should-have
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.
children reality alive
It's exciting and encouraging that the spirit of exploration is alive and that students see it occurring in their lifetime. These may well be the children that make it a reality. Orlando Figueroa
children men people
I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves. Oriana Fallaci
children war effort
Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.
children writing needs
I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it. Orhan Pamuk
children eye light
She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.
children color voice
Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment he begins to use words like colors in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time.
children sunshine play
Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant. Orison Swett Marden
children taught should
Every child should be taught to expect success
children grateful first-love
I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it. Om Puri
children rain night
When you are so full of sorrow that you can't walk, can't cry anymore, think about the green foliage that sparkles after the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when you hope a final night will cover the world, think about the awakening of a young child. Omar Khayyam
children dark offering
I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same. Olivia Colman
children nice struggle
If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
children suffering may
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! Oliver Wendell Holmes
children ems done
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
children good-things things-happen
We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen. Oliver Stone
children knowing enjoyed
When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
children unique two
My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance. Oliver Sacks
children stories demand
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
children truth done
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
children men royalty
Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle. Oliver Cromwell
children loneliness ignorance
There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance. Olive Schreiner
children ideas people
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.
children ideas looks
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea....
children ideas leaving
I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal. Octavia Butler