Quotes about chi
children thinking pneumonia
Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way. Audrey Hepburn
children thinking care
Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.
children important
Is there anything more important than a child?
children husband flower
It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?
children real should
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.
children loneliness garden
My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.
children war mean
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II,
children differences poetry
The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. Audre Lorde
children color white
If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?
children suicidal dragons
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.
children color differences
From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sizes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression.
children war thinking
I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.
children war care
Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.
childhood gloomy satisfied
If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied. Astrid Lindgren
children book writing
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.
children people missing
I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
children book thinking
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
children book healing
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
children writing miracle
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
children hug littles
There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.
children giving common-sense
Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
children book writing
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books. Arthur Ransome
children mourning dresses
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. Arthur Rimbaud
children latin book
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
children thinking parent
But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much. Arne Jacobsen
children work hero
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children. Armstrong Williams
children want way
Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger. Arne Duncan
children father school
Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.
children thinking price-tag
I just think we can't do enough of this [student exchanges]... And when you get young children traveling internationally, I think they come back different people. And you can't put a price tag - you can't put a value on that.
children father science
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end. Arnold J. Toynbee
children men choices
The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it.
children men parent
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
children parent teach
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them Arnold Bennett