Quotes about children
children government tools
The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage. Marco Rubio
children care reason
If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. Marcus Aurelius
children age youth
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?
children war holiday
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.
children thinking plant
Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.
children moving two
If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.
children men tyrants
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.
children names opinion
Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.
children emotion sleeves
I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve. Marcia Gay Harden
children keys world
The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world. Marc Forster
children years next
Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years. Marc Faber
children
I am a child who is getting on. Marc Chagall
children decision answers
My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension. Thomas a Kempis
children innovation mind
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. Thomas A. Edison
children lying school
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
children genius
Sticking to it is the genius.
children memories stress
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
children years age
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
children condolences grief
Sorrow makes us all children again. Ralph Waldo Emerson
children routine essentials
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.
children struggle anxiety
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on. Simon Callow
children book impact
The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work. Sid Fleischman
children hate book
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.
children accomplishment behinds
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. Sidney Blumenthal
children struggle america
We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty. Sidney Hillman
children believe destiny
I'm a believer of destiny, and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs, and I've seen the lows, and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best. Shilpa Shetty
children gun watches
Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart. Sheryl Crow
children reading artist
I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well. Shigeru Miyamoto
children ethics-and-morals adults
An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.
children thinking hands
Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together.
children heart thinking
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
children character thinking
Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.
children taken long
The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time. Shia LaBeouf