Quotes about children
children responsibility direct-effect
But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children, because that will help to explain why society is becoming more violent. Hugh Mackay
children educational opportunity
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
children worrying-too-much trying
Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.
children attention actors
I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche. Hugh Laurie
children love-is romance
I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children. Hugh Hefner
children mistake thinking
I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.
children order ideas
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature. Hugh Jackman
children light two
I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
children knowledge garden
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven. Horace Mann
children school two
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
children fables alphabet
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
children mean bread-of-life
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls.
children grief heart
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
children growing-up law
Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.
children appreciate ignorant
Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.
children believe i-believe
I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now! Homer
children long battle
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
children believe i-believe
I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.
children eye home
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
children criminal deal gang members people speak
If I don't speak up, who else is going to get stabbed? ... They don't know their children are having to deal with criminal gang members in their 20s. What are these people doing stabbing teenagers?
children
If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.' Mara Wilson
children crime-and-criminals fear inflicted inhumanity parents
If he does have it, he put these children at risk. Think about the fear he has inflicted in these parents. Not only in the inhumanity (of the crimes), but also with this disease.
children men survival
Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival. Gloria Steinem
children home men
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.
children growing-up night
When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.
children care skirts
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.
children kids men
More and more men are raising children or want to be close to their kids. They don't want to just lead work-obsessed lives and end up 50 years later with an engraved watch.
children men circles
They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities.
children ideas symbolism
Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.
children lasts masculine
You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.
children influence economic
It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.
children black-and-white woods
I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.
children fundamentals humans
It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.