Quotes about children
children kids giving
When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid. Katherine Paterson
children reading giving
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.
children talking clothes
Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms. Kate Braverman
children inward awakening
Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions. Kate Chopin
children giving-up revealing
I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldnt give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.
children school responsibility
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school. Kate Bush
children book writing
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems. Kate DiCamillo
children book laughing
What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.
children writing philadelphia
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
children aunt lovely
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
children reading thinking
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
children reading literacy
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
children believe despair
I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry. Karin Fossum
children independent intelligent
India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child. Karisma Kapoor
children years people
People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children. Karl A. Menninger
children thinking people
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it. Karin Slaughter
children book giving
Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.
children rights care
There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights. There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights. Julian Bond
children school years
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
children kids littles
I always feel like a goofy little kid. Julia Stiles
children adults negative
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults. Julian Barnes
children mistake mean
You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the child of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better than average marriage yourself – either through some genetic inheritance or because you’d learnt from example? But it doesn’t seem to work like that. So perhaps you need the opposite example – to see mistakes in order not to make them yourself. Except this would mean that the best way for parents to ensure their children have happy marriages would be to have unhappy ones themselves. So what’s the answer?
children apples florida
For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map. Ken Jennings
children discipline adults
The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline. Ken Kutaragi
children real imagination
If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something "real" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale. Keith Murray
children world environment
I enjoy watching children interact with the world, the way they engage their environment without any filters, learned models, or cynicism.
children instruments genesis
Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child. Keith Urban
children animal simple
Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O Keith Olbermann
children men police
As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own. Katie Price
children acting pursued
Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child. Kristanna Loken
children grief years
I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free. Kris Kristofferson
children people laughing
I was never a hammy child. But I could make people laugh. Kristen Bell
children
It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies. Kitty Carlisle