Quotes about chi
children teaching hands
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching. George Bernard Shaw
children business men
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
children book world
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
children eye dark
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
children rights wife
Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.
children soul dirt
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
children thinking kitchen
If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.
children growing-up men
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.
children giving tree
What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.
children teaching tolerance
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
children simple law
The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.
children ideas clothes
No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.
children latin learning
It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
children thoughtful thinking
Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.
children women thinking
Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
children parent warning
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
children intelligent race
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.
children people parent
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
children men poverty
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
children mean worry
Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.
children enjoy-life down-and
My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life. Gena Lee Nolin
children character fool
As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters. Gemma Ward
children giving way
Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future. Gelsey Kirkland
children cutting giving
In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience. Gelett Burgess
children world lips
He licked at her lips."We are going to have some amazing children. The best this world has ever seen. Gena Showalter
children heart bed
She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed. - Kaia Skyhawk
children character mean
Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents read to their children at night,” she countered. “That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.
children communication talking
Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me. Gary Myers
children hunting rights
The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature. Gary Morris
children memories blessing
this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love gives again into our arms. Galway Kinnell
children fortune-cookie noise
For children is there any happiness which is not also noise? Frederick William Faber
children feelings cold
Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ. Frederick William Robertson
children hate struggle
And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality.