Quotes about children
children long honor
All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards. Octavia Butler
children home should-have
The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
children impact today
What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today. Novak Djokovic
children years full-potential
Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole.
children rights protected
All children have rights and those rights must be protected.
children age literature
Where children are, there is the golden age. Novalis
children childhood earth
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
children fall phantom-tollbooth
...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall. Norton Juster
children fall thinking
Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
children book adults
A good book written for children can be read by adults
children evil may
They are inherently good -- the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil -- but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency -- you may say goodness -- of the human being Norman Vincent Peale
children parent planets
Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents. Emilio Estevez
children pain men
And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life Emile Zola
children vision disadvantages
80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage. Ellen Hollman
children two america
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Ellen Gustafson
children mean water
The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
children patriotic loss
the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred. Ellen Key
children real rose
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
children kids way
I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time. Ellen Goodman
children goal excellence
We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.
children artist average
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.
children divorce fire
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
children motherhood focus
The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us backout in the world.... But motherhood that can narrow our lives can also broaden them. It can make us focus intensely on the moment and invest heavily in the future.
children struggle parenthood
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
children sky fire
The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds. Ellen Glasgow
children fun men
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
children parent enough-time
In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents. Ellen Galinsky
children secret-places sheep
In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth.
children care invisible
Child care is an invisible part of the economy.
children school parent
There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is wary, watchful, and takes a longer time to separate from his parents and join the group. Neither one nor the other is smarter, better adjusted, or destined for a better life.
children adults can-do
If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?
children communication character
Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.
children selfish winning
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined. Ellen G. White