Quotes about children
children expanding safety
For one, we're just expanding an already-existing restriction. And, secondly, it's all about the safety of children.
children
For them to say anything about how these children were supervised is disingenuous and insulting, because they have no idea how these children were supervised.
children close keeps lived living moved suburbs
For someone who lived in Upper Arlington, for example, living in Hilliard keeps them close to their friends, and often close to their children who have often moved to suburbs like Hilliard or Dublin.
children rhyming combination
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. Jack Prelutsky
children fun blessed
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
children writing voice
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
children mad
So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music. Itzhak Perlman
children prodigies heard
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
children possibility prodigies
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
children son branches
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists. Ivan Turgenev
children people tomorrow
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
children bored parent
That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
children resilience suffering
...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance. Ishmael Beah
children war views
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible.
children divorce underestimate
You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children. Isla Fisher
children book writing
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy. Iris Johansen
children loneliness needs
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness! Irvin D. Yalom
children despair adults
Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair. Iris Murdoch
children childhood despair
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
children dirty anxiety
Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.
children situation entry
The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.
children real long-ago
That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed. Ilka Chase
children rooms becoming
When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born. Ina May Gaskin
children flavor want
The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought. Ina Garten
children animal symphony
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals. Igor Stravinsky
children work sleep
How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort. Ida Tarbell
children asking littles
My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them. Hunter Tylo
children pain believe
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. Hypatia
children adults restraint
Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint. Gregory Maguire
children soul liberty
...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.
children years lessons
How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects. Gloria Reuben
children want spirit
I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you. Gloria Vanderbilt
children giving albums
An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth! Gloria Trevi