Quotes about children
children sacrifice thinking
We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise. LeVar Burton
children book childrens-books
For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.
children home tablets
And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
children believe opportunity
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
children war lasts
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
children childhood assuming
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable. Lev Grossman
children games bullshit
That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.
children book thinking
When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.
children childhood children-love
Childhood, whose very happiness is love. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
children sleep conscience
conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ...
children two cloning
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. Leon Kass
children abortion important
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
children want steps
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
children parent looks
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
children parent copies
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
children laughter jealous
I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that. Leah Remini
children thinking depth
I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children. Lea Thompson
children mean land
Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.
children kids reality
Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12 million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference. LeAnn Rimes
children party looks
When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
children teenager father
Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been. Laurence Steinberg
children people parent
Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.
children voice use
I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid. Laurence Fishburne
children kids answers
The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything. Laurence J. Peter
children giving rope
Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
children light hair
Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature,--may almost say, "I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now. Leigh Hunt
children growing-up blessed
Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.
children niece kids
I dont have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think about adoption. There are so many kids at different ages and stages that need families. Lauren Velez
children philosophy school
What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your eyes, jostling in your brain like a bunch of overeager school children, about to be released on break. Will you let yourself be deluded? Will you let yourself be decieved? -"On Beauty and Falsehood," The New Philosophy, by Ellen Dorpshire Lauren Oliver
children rain hair
Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are going to turn your hair to gray. Mary keep your oars a-steady Sail away on the rising flood Keep your candle at the ready Red tides can't be told from blood. - "Miss Mary" (a common child's clapping game, dating from the time of the blitz), from Pattycake and Beyond: A History of Play
children taken darkness
It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.
children jumping sick
Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead. - A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.
children father mean
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before. Lafcadio Hearn