Quotes about children
children smart laughing
Remember that Cosby show where he harrassed the children? Well I put on a little suit and because I am so small they invited me on but nobody was laughing at my jokes. I guess I'm just, too, particularly smart for them. Thom Yorke
children rocks evil
Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers Thom Yorke
children helping cry
Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. 'Hit the bottom and escape' is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me Thom Yorke
children wall growing-up
I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly play The Wall in full and walk around the house naked carrying cupcakes. It's important my children see my bits in graphic detail. Thom Yorke
children benefits concepts
The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time. Theresa May
children blessed dirty
At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four years, who at play has got its hair tossed and its clothes soiled. These misfortunes have befallen me in battling with souls. But very soon the Blessed Virgin hastens to my aid: quickly, she takes off my dirty little pinafore, smoothes my hair and adorns it with a pretty ribbon or simply with a little flower... and this suffices to render me pleasing and enables me to sit at the Banquet of Angels without blushing. Therese of Lisieux
children school boys
Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school? Terry Wogan
children philosophy maturity
Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge. Tess Gerritsen
children spring grandmother
I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong. Terry Tempest Williams
children mean kids
I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices. Lester Bangs
children men people
You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller. Leo Rosten
children simple play
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. Leo Rosten
children digging matter
We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that sometimes we forget about. They are also potentiality. They are much more undiscovered than they are discovered. And there's the wonder of it. It doesn't matter where they are, they're only just beginning and the big magical trip of life is digging it all out and discovering the wonderful you. Leo Buscaglia
children play parent
There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of action it allows and the stressless environment in which it occurs, children discover, relate to and define themselves and their world. ...It is, therefore, paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play. Leo Buscaglia
children communication eye
Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person. Leo Buscaglia
children pain garden
Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids. Leo Buscaglia
children bazaars married
When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.' Lee Radziwill
children taken quality
If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure. Lee Trevino
children believe analysis
Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis. Lawrence Summers
children thank-god littles
Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older. Lauren Holly
children school kids
School feeding is a great tool to encourage education and provide food aid to children born into extremely impoverished situations. The kids in school being fed by WFP are empowered by their school meal to learn and better their lives! Lauren Bush
children world vulnerable
It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world. Lauren Bowles
children eugenics looks
If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on. Lauren Groff
children needs charity
I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need. Lauren Conrad
children men choices-made
There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door. Larry Niven
children sibling night
Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began. Larry McMurtry
children safe feels
If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn. Lady Gaga
children scandal months
It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month. Lewis Grizzard
children earth steps
What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart. Lew Wallace
children attachment cameras
In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show. Lewis Hine
children getting-high profit
There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work. Lewis Hine
children rich wells
The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard. Lewis H. Lapham
children blessed race
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics. Lewis H. Lapham