Quotes about children
children writing risk
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child. Rachel Cusk
children couple winter
I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened. Rachel Cohn
children creativity awe-and-wonder
If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. Rachel Carson
children heart tears
Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves. Rabindranath Tagore
children dust mystery
The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.
children aspiration guise
Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.
children school discipline
When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.
children newborn-child newborn
We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.
children my-children
I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.
children men born
For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.
children flower writing
April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.
children school people
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.
children tyrants lessons
The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons
children media skills
It's about using social media for social change: creating a community of advocates who can use their voices on behalf of the voiceless, or leverage their talents, skills, knowledge, and resources to put more children into classrooms, or pressure their elected representatives to get global education top of the agenda. Queen Rania of Jordan
children opportunity safety
I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
children believe world
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
children women thinking
Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society. Queen Victoria
children parent lessons
The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.
children men educate
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men. Pythagoras
children men knees
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
children weekend tree
When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams. Pippa Middleton
children dark night
As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.
children
I was a precocious child.
children parent listening
I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.
children men world
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. Plato
children mean winning
Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser. Joshua Waitzkin
children responsibility important
The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state. Jostein Gaarder
children drawing paper
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
children thinking long
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.
children growing-up drunk
As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.
children government punishment
The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death penalty for convicted murderers is "cruel and unusual punishment." Joseph Farah
children sleep care
A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child Joseph Bruchac
children love-is debt
Love is for children. I owe him a debt. Joss Whedon