Quotes about children
children issues perfect
Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children. Matt Damon
children kids greatness
It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.
children heart passion
Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything. Mary Lou Retton
children men thinking
I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman. Mary MacLane
children want spend-time
I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him. Mary-Louise Parker
children memorable people
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. Mary McCarthy
children past reality
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
children grateful long
It's just this long overdue. These people [ex-Nazi brought to trial] should be grateful to the apathy that exists there that prevented them from being brought to trial earlier. All of the people that they committed crimes against had their lives snuffed out, some of them at very young ages. Some of them never had a chance to get married and have children. Marvin Hier
children teaching writing
I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments. Marva Collins
children mind
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
children educational school-education
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
children mean errors
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
children teaching learning
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
children future suffering
When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow. Marvin Gaye
children arms mold
As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him. Marvin J. Ashton
children parent listening
Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.
children book two
This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth. Mark Twain
children vegetables fuel
Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.
children wife easy
For my wife and I, our first child was really easy to have, but our second one was really hard to have. We had to go to a lot of fertility clinics and do that whole thing. Nicholas Stoller
children littles laptops
Every child in Uruguay has a little green laptop. Nicholas Negroponte
children firsts natural
When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.
children circles dying
No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the future anymore? Nicholas Sparks
children house feelings
More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells.
children hands lasts
God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.
children differences skins
We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference. Navjot Singh Sidhu
children military dark
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned. Nawal El Saadawi
children father years
The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.
children father rain
Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist.
children done too-much
Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in. Neal A. Maxwell
children joy serious
God is very serious about joy in the lives of His children.
children light helping
If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!
children rocks world
You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.
children careers wedding-day
I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that. Natasha Hamilton