Quotes about chi
children book grief
I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia. Francine Prose
children inspire handwriting
Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.
children memories men
Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed. Francis Bacon
children ignorance boldness
Boldness is a child of ignorance
children anger men
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.
children parent wish
Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.
china nations
For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China. Jennifer Dunn
children memories thinking
I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think. Jennifer Ehle
children vitamins rich
Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins. Jennifer Egan
children loss views
That we need help is easy to see every time we walk down the street. The experts confirm what the obscured view in front of us tells us. They estimate that 64% of adults in the United States are obese and that this percentage is growing. Even our children are being affected, as nearly every one in three American children under the age of 18 is overweight. Jeff Schweitzer
children war people
Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die. Jeff Shaara
chinese tables arms
I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle. Jeff Smith
children powerful father
Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Jeff Greenfield
children school dancing
If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life. Jean Simmons
children liars believe
Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe. Jean Rhys
children heart and-love
When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them. Jean Vanier
children hero secret
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.
children childhood age
But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie). Jean de La Fontaine
china stability shows
History shows that anything conducive to our national stability is good. Jiang Zemin
children looks whole-family
Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks. Jil Sander
children insane destroyed
Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed! Jhonen Vasquez
children forget clock
With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before Jhumpa Lahiri
children heart names
She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.
children years people
Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children. Gro Harlem Brundtland
children stupidity parent
This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach. Groucho Marx
children blood contact
He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood. Graham Greene
children childhood forever
Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?
children dark years
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
children growing-up moving
As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move. Goh Chok Tong
children reading wanted
I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
children kids giving
You don't have to tell a child not to bully. You know, you talk at kids, they don't hear you, but when you give them a visceral experience, then they have something to remember. Goldie Hawn
children sky giving
I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.
children hair looks
When you look at the amount of medication that has been administered to children today, it stands the hair up on your arms. Because this is the way that they are helping children manage their emotions.