Quotes about children
children character opportunity
I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome. James McAvoy
children bishops priests
The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest. James Martineau
children educational responsibility
I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills. Emeril Lagasse
children together reaching
We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.
children years ideas
It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict. Ellen Swallow Richards
children lying kids
They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids never lie playfully. They lie as if their lives depended on it. Ellen Potter
children parent house
We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children. Ella Maillart
children blessed artist
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
children boston years
Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children. Elizabeth Spelke
children department highest places priority state victimized welfare
The Department of State places the highest priority on the welfare of children who have been victimized by international abductions.
children countries developing people plenty urgent
The developing countries have experienced a plenty of sufferings. People and children in these countries are in an urgent need of education, development and peace, Wen Jiabao
children commonly direct employed force great limited nations physical poor problem resources small solution
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations David Friedman
children community good members together
All the decision-makers are together (on the board). And the community members will be important. They can be real advocates for children (and) can give good suggestions.
children church decided design help loved people remind squares warm
All the people at our church wanted to help so we decided to design quilted squares to make blankets that would not only keep the children warm but also remind them that they are loved by us and by God.
children country divide drive hill lebanon thou unto
All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
children fields unto valley villages
And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof, / And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Bethphelet, / And at Hazarshual, and at Beersheba, and in the villages thereof, / And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof, / And at Enrimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth, / Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
children drove sons three
And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
children found great michael nation people prince shall since stand thy time written
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
children dark heart hold home leave open rolling sell send smile weak whisper
And if I show you my dark sidewill you still hold me tonightand if I open my heart to youand show you my weak sidewhat would you dowould you sell your story to rolling stonewould you take the children awayand leave me aloneand smile in reassuranceas you whisper down the phonewould you send me packingor would you take me home
children animal organization
Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected. Elayne Boosler
children giving-up fighting
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed. Edward St Aubyn
children giving may
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it. Edward de Bono
children years nuts
Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.
children mean people
Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don't change. They don't develop. They don't — it's that continual read, that process which is is the total threat for the ego. Edie Sedgwick
children hands matter
I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it. Edie Falco
children people important
I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
children school air
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings. Edith Hamilton
children scary world
For me, even when I was pregnant, I wondered, Should we even have children if we're bringing them into this horrible, scary world? But I did have a child, despite these fears - or because of them - and these fears are both contemporary and as old as time. Edan Lepucki
children may example
In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd. Eckhart Tolle
children universe
It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.
children ego earth
On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood.
children dad self
When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.
children names ego
As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.