Quotes about children
children thinking people
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology Helen Mirren
children wells knows
I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom. And I've so loved my freedom.
children land people
The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.
children artist suffering
The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Heinrich Heine
children dad judgement
My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to do the similar for my children. Heather McDonald
children believe differences
Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction. Heather O'Neill
children taken thinking
Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
children growing-up cities
A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.
children real kids
My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that. Hayley Atwell
children love-you parent
The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through. Hilary Duff
children memories grandmother
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories. Hilary Mantel
children generations doe
For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.
children book cutting
Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. Hilaire Belloc
children creating imagination
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free. Henry Williamson
children writing novelists
Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime. Henryk Sienkiewicz
children women talking
That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many. Henry Winkler
children stupid math
As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.
children moving games
Life is a child moving counters in a game. Heraclitus
children moving games
Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.
children kingdoms eternity
Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.
children children-playing lordship
Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
children men sea
History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
children possibility bundles
A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities. Henry Ward Beecher
children laughter hate
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
children energy manage
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
children boys people
Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.
children men world
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
children hands parent
Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
children father dark
May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.
children growing-up book
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
children home parent
Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
children dwelling silence
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
children cheer book
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.