Quotes about chi
children party plums
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. Anthony Trollope
children believe preparation
We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.
children thinking reason
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
children thinking steps
If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again. Diane Cilento
children bed parental
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
children dark bombarded-by
When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards. Diane Abbott
children wall west
I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
children school mps
I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.
children passion only-child
My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion. Diane Duane
children world generations
It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl
children father saint
Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!" Even saints have to start somewhere," Carl said softly. "And it's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.
children careers firsts
My children come first and the career comes in around that. Diana Ross
children confused book
"Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed. Diana Wynne Jones
children genius lucky
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
children people doe
It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.
children writing brain
Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.
children mirrors important-relationships
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships. Diane Ackerman
children pain memories
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.
children heaven age
If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.
chicago
We have not really advertised Chicago internationally. Desiree Rogers
children school years
I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure. Derrick Jensen
children book wind
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and put them face to face with chipmunks, dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads. That said, if you're going to force me to give them a book, it would be The Wind In The Willows, which I hope would remind them to go outside.
children privilege fortune
I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children. Demi Moore
children thinking ideas
I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'
children laughing joy
One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh Demi Lovato
chief greater honor house serve tremendous white
Working in the White House is a tremendous privilege. But it is even a greater honor to serve as the president's chief of staff, especially to you, Mr. President.
china express fault finding opposition reason resolute strong time united
We express strong dissatisfaction and at the same time resolute opposition to (the United States) finding fault with China for no reason at all.
chicken division pay price separate
We're (exposed to the sector) in a chicken way ... I would never pay the price for that division if it were a separate company.
chicago dynasty football good last seems since six sports team
We're not a dynasty, we're just a good football team, and we've been a good football team since I've been here. The Chicago Bulls, they were a dynasty. They were a dynasty for six years, but once you lose, you're not a dynasty any more. I don't know how long dynasties last, but it seems like they don't last very long in professional sports nowadays. Rodney Harrison
children men atheism
Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.
children hunger should
What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about. John Powell
children abuse prison
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
children love-you eye
As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye, Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms, Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll To every varied object in his glance William Shakespeare