Quotes about children
children war fighting
I hope my own children never have to fight a war. George H. W. Bush
children educational writing
Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.
children mean home
We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.
children book reading
Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves. Harold Bloom
children heart skills
I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my experience that when parents are given the skills to be more helpful, not only are they able to use these skills, but they infuse them with a warmth and a style that is uniquely their own. Haim Ginott
children real sleep
Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, 'Is it what he needs or what he wants?' It isn't always easy to distinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.
children fall frustration
When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.
children thinking feels
Only if a child feels right can he think right.
children responsibility voice
Responsibility is fostered by allowing children a voice and wherever indicated a choice in matters that affect them.
children parenting discipline
When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.
children simple answers
How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.
children nice self-esteem
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
children boys sheep
I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy. Haile Gebrselassie
children adventure shopping
Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures. Hailee Steinfeld
children father achieve
Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily Haile Selassie
children names accompany-you
There, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you. Guru Nanak
children men matter
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
children men caste-system
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
children boys years
I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS. Gunter Grass
children thinking years
People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?
children simple mankind
The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?' Greg Smith
children war hate
One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world. Greg Mortenson
children military war
If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.
children hate people
I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death.
children party sleep
Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep. Graham Nash
children people curiosity
Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know. Graham Swift
children memories fall
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.
children mirrors world
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through. Jim C. Hines
children skulls drawing
My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher Jim Butcher
children littles precious-gifts
Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.
children boys blood
Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar?" Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg. "Monkey," Varg supplied, in Aleran. "And male-child." "He called me monkey boy?" Tavi asked.
children kids perfect
Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.
children home cutting
I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain. Jessica Biel