Quotes about children
children doors wife
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors. L. Frank Baum
children book writing
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children
children littles toys
He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.
children men civilization
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
children taken dwarves
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.
children law risk
Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing 'street prices' crashing down (it's estimated that a 'spoon' of heroin would cost about a quarter in the free market), thereby eradicating any incentive that criminals might have to compete with legitimate businesses, and greatly reducing if not eliminating altogether any economic reason to ' push ' drugs on children. L. Neil Smith
children people drug
We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
children men rifles
Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.
children men average
If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.
children goal wish
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. Lillian Gordy Carter
children my-children
I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.
children should-have looks
Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'
children one-day charity
But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children. Lily Aldridge
children humorous kids
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates. P. J. O'Rourke
children food wine
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.
children america parent
It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.
children taken grateful
That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.
children philosophy useless
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
children genius paint
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability? Pablo Picasso
children artist
All Children are Artists
children laughter half
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.
children artist outcomes
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.
children tricks born
We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
children rain mean
We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people. Like, take the law that says you can't go into someone else's houseI have a house, so, hey, I like that law. The guy without a house-what's he think of it? Stay out in the rain, schnook.That’s what the law means to him Paul Castellano
children games parent
It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom. Kenneth Oppel
children abortion purpose
The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion. Ken Calvert
children writing letters
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality. Ken Burns
children people way
I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in. Keanu Reeves
children educational play
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity. Kay Redfield Jamison
children growing-up trauma
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. Kazuo Ishiguro
children father games
After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults, now we can. That’s the thing, you see? Look at us, Akira. After all this time, we can finally put things right. Remember, old chap, how we used to play those games? Over and over? How we used to pretend we were detectives searching for my father? Now we’re grown, we can at last put things right.
children feet age
I was a full foot taller than any child my age. Kristen Johnston
children heart forever
They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now. Kristi Yamaguchi