Quotes about chi
children cancer book
I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B word in the book. I fought my way into this election and on to this debate stage while all the political insiders and the pundits told, "it couldn't be done." Carly Fiorina
children real cancer
I have been tested in many ways, personally, I have beaten breast cancer, I buried a child to addiction. Professionally, you cannot go from being a secretary of nine-person real estate firm to the chief executive of the largest technology company in the world without having been tested over and over and over.
childhood woe illness
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured. Carlo Collodi
children support humanity
We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement. Candice S. Miller
children careers remember
It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young. Candace Parker
children school ready
When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up. C. Everett Koop
children doctors justice
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.
children eye parent
I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.
children memorable important
Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work.
children men want
Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be; but be the right thing. Burning Spear
children crazy emotional
I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child. Bryan Cranston
children lines watches
Everything has gotten vulgar and out of line for children to watch. It's more of a swearing match. Bubba Smith
children writing typewriters
I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger. Buchi Emecheta
children character skills
Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions. James Heckman
children opportunity childhood
The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers
children animal people
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us. James Herriot
children animal people
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
children quiet kind
I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all. James Hetfield
children quiet
I was pretty quiet as a child.
children destiny feelings
What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child. James Hillman
children emotional imagination
We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out. That's how the mentor system works - you're caught up in the fantasy of another person. Your imagination and their come together.
children growing-up thinking
I think the worst atmosphere for a six-year-old is one in which there are no expectations whatsoever. That is, it's worse for the child to grow up in a vacuum where "whatever you do is alright, I'm sure you'll succeed." That is a statement of disinterest. It says, "I really have no fantasies for you at all."
childhood wire stories
I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.
children military book
Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'
childhood way determined
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
children kids doctors
We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?
children home white
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
children teaching school
Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually. James Dyson
children parent challenges
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
children responsibility
We children learned responsibility automatically. James Earl Jones
children thinking lazy
If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level. James Dobson
children pain long
Ain is a marvelous purifier... It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.
children discipline people
Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.