Quotes about children
children envy bird
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy. Isaac Asimov
children secret titles
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory. Irena Sendler
children knowing kind
The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely. Immanuel Kant
children giving parent
Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.
children spoons silver
The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon. Elton John
children teenager clothes
As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.
children important world
Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.
children sadness laughing
Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.
children hate cry
Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.
children teach brainwashing
All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing. Ellen Gilchrist
children school kids
No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind. Ellen Barkin
children father competition
In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John Wesley Dobbs in terms of family status. You know, the bragging about whose child got a master's degree first and whose child, maybe, was the first Ph.D. Out of a background like that, the business of becoming a chairman of an important movement or a movement that symbolizes a certain amount of prestige is something you don't resist easily. Ella Baker
children believe school
I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration of the school system. You had some very severe economic reprisals against people in Mississippi and in South Carolina. So, in order to try to help to meet some of the physical needs and the economic needs of people in Clarendon County [SC] who had been displaced from the land, and otherwise, and in certain sections of Mississippi, we organized in New York City something called "In Friendship".
children aunt discipline
I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child. Ellen DeGeneres
children glasses people
People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.
children father son
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself ... Ella Wheeler Wilcox
children reading writing
Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.
children mind fever
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
children two greed
... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way, greed and haste. The question is, or seems to be, are we going to have an immediate profit and an immediate saving of time, or are we going to do what we really should do as God's children? Francis Schaeffer
children people way
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.
children men issues
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today: abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, the increase of child abuse and violence of all kinds, pornography ... , the routine torture of political prisoners in many parts of the world, the crime explosion, and the random violence which surrounds us.
children understanding frost
Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shall thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience and his second shall be what thou wilt. Francis Quarles
children father parent
If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.
children wings giving
Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.
children voice band
When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point. Ian MacKaye
children groups close-friends
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends. Ian Mcewan
children left-alone wanted
It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.
children way
Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.
children house connections
It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection.
children men childhood
Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world. Ian Fleming
children tendencies species
There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species. Hugh Lofting
children writing authority
I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
children games play
Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters. Hugh Mackay