Quotes about children
children live-life nurse
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot. Patti Smith
children spoil spares
Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god. Patti Smith
children book years
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. Patti Smith
children wonderful wanted
All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful. Patti Smith
children red-lipstick want
Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick. Patti Smith
children believe sea
For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love. Patti Smith
children sleep kissing
There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view grainy and immoble. We gathered our colored pencils and sheets of paper and drew like wild, feral children into the night, until, exhausted, we fell into bed. We lay in each other's arms, still awkward but happy, exchanging breathless kisses into sleep. Patti Smith
children smart school
I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it. Patti Smith
children school organization
Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists Pat Roberts
children civilization fidelity
There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived. Pat Roberts
children teaching athlete
Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future. Pat Williams
children adoption decades
For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide. Pat Robertson
children taken school
The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America. Pat Robertson
children halloween sacrifice
I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it. Pat Robertson
children health responsibility
Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared. Pat Robertson
children evil-people world
There are demons and there are evil people in the world And you post a picture like that, and some cultist gets a hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child. Pat Robertson
children husband women
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. Pat Robertson
children sea swim
When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life. P. L. Travers
children book maturity
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one . P. L. Travers
children book men
Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo. P. L. Travers
children real world
There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other. P. L. Travers
children men needs
Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain. P. T. Barnum
children laughing exhibitions
I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales. P. T. Barnum
children brave secret
Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives. P. D. James
children parenting happy-kid
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. P. D. James
children islands treasure
Every island to a child is a treasure island. P. D. James
children divorce pawns
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. P. J. O'Rourke
children real ideas
The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong. P. J. O'Rourke
children vegetables
Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children. P. J. O'Rourke
children hate reality
Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state. Ozzy Osbourne
children broken insanity
A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind. Ozzy Osbourne
children fall future
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll. Ozzy Osbourne
children humorous ice-cream
She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream. P. G. Wodehouse