Quotes about children
children poet masters
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets. Aristophanes
children order discipline
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work... Antonio Gramsci
children loneliness world
I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in. Anzia Yezierska
children moving icons
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. Brock Yates
children blessing thinking
I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you! Brooke Burke
children world best-things
But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world. Bridget Moynahan
children drama media
I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.
children thinking shields
I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody. Edwidge Danticat
children school example
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Edmund Burke
children guilty
Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not. Elie Wiesel
children violence adults
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children
children believe single-child
I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation...
children writing two
Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it was really easy to write and an utter delight to get to direct because I had people like Edward [Norton] elevating the material and surprising me in their interpretations of all of this stuff that's so close to me. Edward Norton
children opportunity childhood
Among the most valuable but least appreciated experiences parenthood can provide are the opportunities it offers for exploring, reliving, and resolving one's own childhood problems in the context of one's relation to one's child. Bruno Bettelheim
children believe fairy-stories
A child... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.
children lying thinking
A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child's life.
children growing-up stress
The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.
children want be-good
The question for the child is not Do I want to be good? but Whom do I want to be like?
children anxious-thoughts giving
Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because--despite all the angry, anxious thoughts in his mind to which the fairy tale gives body and specific content--these stories always result in a happy outcome, which the child cannot imagine on his own.
children book offering
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them
children feel-better parent
The good enough parent, in addition to being convinced that whatever his child does, he does it because at that moment he is convinced this is the best he can do, will also ask himself: "What in the world would make me act as my child acts at this moment? And if I felt forced to act this way, what would make me feel better about it?
children disappointment frustration
Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.
children thinking intelligent
The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and guide them always to do their own thinking in their attempts at understanding and dealing with child-rearing situations and problems, and not to rely blindly on the opinions of others.
children fall hero
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today. Bruce Willis
children past reality
Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs. Bruce Campbell
children doctors hope information parents provide talk tools
We hope to provide the tools to parents of children with ADHD so they can have the information they can talk with their doctors about.
children giving received
Yes. I won't be giving them to the children, but back to society. Don't get me wrong, the children will get something, but we received from society, and will give it back. Haim Saban
children miss rack
When I'm on the road traveling, the things I miss most are my two children and barbecuing with friends. Rack of ribs, lamb and veal are my specialties. Angel Cabrera
children christmas dying peace people spend
The people know they won't be able to spend Christmas in peace because their children are dying of hunger,
children liked priority
I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts. Sharon Stone
children tough beats
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. Edgar Allan Poe
children imagination littles
Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience. Eleanor Roosevelt
children joy feelings
As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.