Quotes about children
children attention shy
I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention. Little Richard
children perfect parent
I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up. Leonardo DiCaprio
children hands bread
You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child. Leonardo da Vinci
children parenting fortune-cookie
The best way to make children good is to make them happy. Oscar Wilde
children home squares
Recycling helps make people feel involved, and in some cases can be useful. Although you've got to do careful life history studies of what you're recycling. If all you're doing is recycling - if you've got three automobiles, and 10 children, and a 7,000-square-foot dot-com palace and second home up in the mountains that has to be heated - the recycling isn't making much difference. Paul R. Ehrlich
children hands should-have
Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.
children real kids
Why would I, in a million years, want to do anything even remotely having to do with child molestation on a children's show? See, I take having a kids' show real seriously. I think it's an enormous responsibility. Paul Reubens
children house lines
A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no one brings casseroles. Paul Reiser
children weekend shallow-person
When you realize you would consider not having a child just so you could take an occasional snooze and be available to see Batman Retires the same weekend it comes out, you have to take a good hard look at yourself and acknowledge, I am a shallow, shallow person.
children justice people
Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people. Paul Gillmor
children men sea
The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child. Paul Gauguin
children clever writing
Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish. Patrick Rothfuss
children waiting looks
Abenthy gave me an appraising look. I'd been waiting for it. It was the look that said, "You don't sound as young as you look." I hoped he'd come to grips with it fairly soon. It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
children tiresome ifs
It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.
children heart shadow
...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.
children growing-up thinking
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
children college significant-things
Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you. Patricia Arquette
children rights expectations
Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our children and to try to do all these different things. The expectations have changed drastically, and thank God they have. Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.
children teenager character
In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children. Parminder Nagra
children people reason
I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics. Park Geun-hye
children animal pet
I'm the best animal lover in the world. There's nobody who takes care of their pets like me...... they are my children. Paris Hilton
children blessed simple
From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity. Padma Lakshmi
children stupid blame
My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family. Paloma Faith
children kids thinking
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
children thinking people
I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
children pain memories
Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become. Lillian Hellman
children shopping rights
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
children work animal
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.
children emotional giving
Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child's suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon--the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.
children america nations
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
children unique expectations
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.
children home might
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
children breaking-down ready
You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not. LeVar Burton