Quotes about children
children america illegitimate-child
The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English. H. L. Mencken
children failure taken
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
children block hero
The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick. Grace Metalious
children feelings aspiration
I’ve always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely. Grace Kelly
children perfect your-children
You can't expect your children to be perfect. Grace Jones
children thinking persons
I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.
children women important
Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children. Grace Paley
children chinese littles
Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.
children parks pressure
In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure to talk about women's lives, and children's lives, too. Children interest me tremendously.
children believe destiny
I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all of His children that he can: and while, if we live unrighteously here, we shall not go to the other side in the same status, so to speak, as those who lived righteously; nevertheless, the unrighteous will have their chance, and in the eons of the eternities that are to follow, they, too, may climb to the destinies to which they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come. J. Reuben Clark
children years church
I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses. Ja Rule
children wife three
I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
children giving imagination
Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
children passion two
The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children. Grant Bowler
children kids thinking
I think my children have presented one of the biggest lessons so far in my life. It was only when my kids were born that I realized just how much I'd been living my life worried about what everybody thought of me and, even more strangely, worried about what I imagined other people might be thinking about me.
children honesty dirty
Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you! Grant Morrison
children reality doctors
We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.
children done quiet
When children stand quiet, they have done some ill. George Herbert
children portions trade
Vertue and a Trade are the best portion for Children.
children weather cold
To a child all weather is cold.
children father firsts
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
children fire heard
The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
children wells
Shee spins well that breedes her children.
children wife want
Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.
children revolution saturn
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. Georg Buchner
children men age
The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child. Georg Brandes
children animal air
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
children house birth
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
children fall errors
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. Georg C. Lichtenberg
children sarcasm mind
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.
children parent done
Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done. Gene Hackman
children war sea
I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough. Gene Cernan
children men common
In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a poor man's dance, they were all so nicely clothed, gowned, coiffured. That's why I decided to wear white socks, loafers, T-shirts, and blue jeans. I had a sociopolitical context in front of me: I was a child of the Depression who danced in a way that would represent the common man. Gene Kelly