Quotes about children
children giving parent
My parents really raised me with the value that it's important to give back, and I've always gravitated towards non-profits and charities that work with children. Danielle Panabaker
children writing writing-stories
I started writing stories as a child. Danielle Steel
children wind pieces
I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.
children book writing
I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.
children kids california
The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.
children book reading
It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.
children thinking ifs
If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that. Daniel Pauly
children adults youth
At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
children may firsts
The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
children thinking parent
I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded. Dan Marino
children dad father
My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
children reality self
The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147 Dan Millman
children honor saws
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family. Corrie Ten Boom
children father stronger
Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.
children perspective perception
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
children father men
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
children paper ink
My children were all made from paper and printer's ink... Cornelia Funke
children shoes different
Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?
children school speak-english
Every German child learns to speak English in school.
children thinking horror-stories
Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?
children watches watch-movie
I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.
children book stories
Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.
children world littles
Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.
children butterfly adults
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
children chocolate unhappy
She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.
children book dust
All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.
children people priorities
We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children. Cornel West
children people action
The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.
children school black-and-white
When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as well as white, we need to push toward integrated schools.
children war talking
We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.
children loss parent
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. Cormac McCarthy
children thinking naps
To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you know, afresh. It forces the world on you. And I think it's a good thing.
children fire shirts
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.