Quotes about children
children giving want
One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind. Rafe Spall
children stones fats
Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
children responsibility heart
We, as parents, must understand the serious responsibility that we have in inculcating love for God in the hearts of children. If our children do not feel love they will not understand God’s love because the love of the parent is translated to the children as the love of God. When they feel their parents' love, they can actually begin to understand God’s love. Radhanath Swami
children church devil
I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.' Ralph Waldo Emerson
children men islands
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
children ignorance bystanders
The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.
children eye world
The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
children done rewards
A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.
children devil ifs
If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.
children heart men
The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.
children school sunday
Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.
children latin eye
In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.
children power thinking
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.
children order chaos
The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
children book arms
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.
children men talent
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.
children grass duty
Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
children believe men
What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.
children wish might
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
children dad son
My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
children parenting solitude
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
children heart eye
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
children heart grandparent
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
children father soul
The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
children father hands
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. Sean Penn
children talking sick
I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.
children opportunity giving
A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.
children my-children secure
I owe it to my children to secure their future. Scott Peterson
children community parent
Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents. Lily Rabe
children college quality
Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no. Lincoln Chafee
children heart compassion
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves. Lin Yutang
children patriotism
What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?
children school home
If I have children, after school they'll always feel happy energy in the home. Li Na