Quotes about children
children thinking stories
When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web. Jodi Picoult
children thinking pie
I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while. John Gould
children progress theology
The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith John Gresham Machen
children school years
Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.
children world fields
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk. John Greenleaf Whittier
children thinking adjectives
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius. John Green
children real kissing
The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.
children sick want
Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.
children truth memories
One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.
children character dark
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.
children hipster our-children
Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.
children swings grace
Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
children nice night
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice. Patti Smith
children said our-children
We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.
children choices flannels
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
children kids clothes
Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.
children heart romantic-love
One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey. Cassandra Clare
children home ducks
Their oldest child, James, had spoken laughingly about Will's unrelenting fear of ducks and his continual battle to keep them out of the pond at the family home in Yorkshire.
children men years
Who am I?” he whispered. “For years I pretended I was other than I was, and then I gloried that I might return to the truth of myself, only to find there is no truth to return to. I was an ordinary child, and then I was a not very good man, and now I do not know how to be either of those things any longer. I do not know what I am, and when Jem is gone, there will be no one to show me.
children believe taken
I don’t know what to do,” Will said. “Mortmain has taken Tessa, and I believe now I know where she might be. There is a part of me that wants nothing more than to go after her. But I cannot leave Jem. I swore an oath. And what if he wakes in the night and finds I am not here?” He looked as lost as a child. “He will think I left him willingly, not caring that he was dying. He will not know. And yet if he could speak, would he not tell me to go after Tessa? Is that not what he would want?” Will dropped his face into his hands. “I cannot say, and it is tearing me in half.
children needs might
Lord Raziel. Surely yoy would not have allowed such a thing as a ritual by wich you might be summoned to exist if you did not intend to be summoned. We Nephilim are your children. We need your guidance
children believe opposites
You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.
children princess love-you
They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.
children voice parent
You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming.
children book personality
Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.
children giving growing
Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children? Caroline Paul
children practice abortion
Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder? Caroline Norton
children famous-inspirational joy
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?
children cat four
Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD. Caroline Knapp
children hands people
You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause. Carly Simon
children broken parent
We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential. Carly Fiorina
children love school
Interacting with Indian children was so fulfilling. They are so affectionate. Every school I've visited, I've been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and love they've showered me with! Ken Spillman
children hard life work
My children are the thing that make life work because, you know, I screwed up my life, and I know it was me, and it was really hard because it was so public, and that was very, very hard.