Quotes about children
children my-own
I would exchange everything for one child of my own. Henrietta Szold
children moving history
The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but suppressing none of them. In this regard, the history of science must be our guide. Henri Poincare
children lying school
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children. Henrik Ibsen
children artist understanding
When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend. Henri Matisse
children artist looks
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
children artist firsts
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
children yoga mean
Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get down on your knees for an hour in a yoga posture. Henri Nouwen
children our-world voice
It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intimate voice saying: 'You are my Belived Child, on you my favor rests.'
children powerful love-life
Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to love its vulnerability, asking for care, attention, guidance, and support. Life and death are connected by vulnerability. The newborn child and the dying elder both remind us of the preciousness of our lives. Let's not forget the preciousness and vulnerability of life during the times we are powerful, successful, and popular.
children heart long
To forgive another from the heart is an act of liberation. We set that person free from the negative bonds that exist between us. As long as we do not forgive we pull them with us, or worse, as a heavy load. The great temptation is to cling in anger to our enemies & then define ourselves as being offended & wounded by them. Forgiveness, therefore, liberates not only the other but also ourselves. It is the way to the freedom of the children of God.
children reading honor
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
children eye passion
The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace... We must dare to opt consciously for our chosenness and not allow our emotions, feelings, or passions to seduce us into self-rejection.
children order doe
A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted. Heinrich Boll
children blood world
Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren. Heinrich Himmler
children fall men
Roughly 7 to 8 percent of men in Germany are homosexual. If that is how things remain, our nation will fall to pieces because of that plague. Those who practice homosexuality deprive Germany of the children they owe her.
children smart people
I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting. Heidi Julavits
children want hollywood
I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood. Heath Ledger
children about-yourself your-children
You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.
children growing-up acting
When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies. Hayley Mills
children years three
We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again. Hippolyte Taine
children years long
I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago. Hiroyuki Sanada
children japan people
Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population. Hiroshi Sugimoto
children writing men
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children. Ho Chi Minh
children war heart
So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound... Hernando Cortes
children opportunity games
Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized. Hesketh Pearson
children grief heart
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. Hesiod
children adoption raises
At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child. Henry Ford
children people fifteen
Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.
children women hysteria
You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.
children husband my-best-friend
To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends. Helen McCrory
children mean people
So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.
children feelings logic
Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child. Helen Oyeyemi
children hands paper
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. Helen Reddy