Quotes about children
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. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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.
children spokes said
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
children technology clouds
I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children. Colson Whitehead
children school people
The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That's what the schools should be doing. Colman McCarthy
children peaceful adults
It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.
children school giving
Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.
children sleep needs
I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly. Colm Toibin
children thinking roots
It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I think you gotta know the roots to really grow. It's like knowing your parents, it's like knowing your culture, so you could be proud of that culture and take it to the world. Common
children philosophy life-is
My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can. Columba Bush