Quotes about children
children soul rubbish
Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness. Peter Paul Rubens
children theatre cinema
I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. Peter O'Toole
children expectations important
Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known. Peter Johnston
children members our-family
Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now. Peter Jennings
children black-and-white generations
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance. Peter Jackson
children broken suffering
Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child. Piers Anthony
children growing-up grows
Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.
children paddling hundred
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred miles on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature. Pierre Trudeau
children prayer hate
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses! Phyllis Bottome
children thinking law
Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.
children eye eyes-of-a-child
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
children order lasts
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
children ambition towers
Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated. Phyllis McGinley
children helping-others order
Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.
children hug praise
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
children want looks
You want to look younger... rent smaller children. Phyllis Diller
children writing dust
... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.
children growing-up silly
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
children humorous kids
We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .
children advice bottles
Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.
children father divorce
Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.
children blood immaturity
The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them. Philip Pullman
children needs waste
We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.
children intelligent adults
Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.
children golden should
Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
children fighting dragons
Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound.
children book fiction
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
children mean justice
The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.
children book writing
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.
children waiting annoying
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying. Rachel Cusk
children creativity writing
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
children people firsts
Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
children adults company
I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.