Quotes about children
children book phones
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. Alan Rickman
children littles young
Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off. Alan Jay Lerner
children father book
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands. Alan Bradley
children grass
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? Alan Bennett
children humanity cheesy
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
children kids body
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20. Alan Alda
children humble careers
At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick. Al Pacino
children people listening
It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things. Al Jarreau
children ignorance reality
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public. Akira Kurosawa
children growing-up learning
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned. Akio Morita
children eye sea
Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
children heart soul
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.
children promise today
If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes. Chris Chocola
children sunshine clouds
It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it. Chris Cleave
children imaginary imaginary-friend
My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children. Chris Colfer
children eye justice
Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes. Chinua Achebe
children wings kites
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
children native-american web-of-life
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth. Chief Seattle
children giving give-me
Good words will not give me back my children. Chief Joseph
children thinking youth
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth. China Mieville
children grief sometimes
And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder. Edward Hirsch
children judging guilt
A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed. Edward Gibbon
children men firsts
[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.
children artist world
The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world. Edith Sitwell
children kids successful
It's something I passed on to my kids. They really love the earth because they've experienced it from the youngest age. They know where food comes from - it doesn't come from the Safeway bush or the Ralph's tree. It comes from the earth. And water and sunshine and nutrients. My children understand that because they've experienced it. I feel successful as a parent, having done that. Ed Begley, Jr.
children believe world
I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock. Eartha Kitt
children animal feelings
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
children men evil
All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in. David Weber
children dad nightmare
I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule. David Icke
children hands greatest-fear
One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.
children deep-within draws
The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it. David Hockney
children youth program
I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs. David Dinkins
children mean kids
You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children. David Duchovny