Quotes about child
children morality ethics
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant! Charlotte Perkins Gilman
children race sky
If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.
children school circles
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle
children son proud
Of course you want your son, your children, to be proud of you. Charlize Theron
children priorities balance
I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.
children believe names
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him. Charles Lamb
children parent serious
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
children science men
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?
children pride people
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.
children heart childhood
Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
childhood milk praise
A babe is fed with milk and praise.
children husband cheer
How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!
children law political
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
children wife no-friends
I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. Charles Bronson
children block book
In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
children desire poison
My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth. Chanakya
children men long
The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came in too close to dawn to wake you, though I was tempted. Your house is full of strange men. A fairy upstairs and a little child downstairs- but as long as there's not one in my lady's chamber, I can stand it". Charlaine Harris
children eyebrows snow
Snow, here?" Eric was as delighted as a child. "I love snow!" Why was I not surprised? "Maybe we will get snowed in together," he said suggestively, waggling his blond eyebrows.
children drunk childhood
A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will. Charles Baudelaire
childhood genius
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
childhood genius
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
children heart two
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
childhood inspire genius
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
children weather singing
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings. Chantal Kreviazuk
children cutting people
The Presidents proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent. Chaka Fattah
children college years
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
children cost debt
Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.
children home actors
I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home. Charlie McDermott
children bops jazz
Bop is no love-child of jazz. Charlie Parker
children thinking escaping
I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me. Charlie Hunnam
children thinking compassion
I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death early and it can be a very troubling thing. We're all in this continuum: I'm this age now, and if I live long enough I'll be that age. I was 20 once, I was 10, I was 4. People who are 20 now will be 50 one day. They don't know that! They know it in the abstract, but they don't know it. I'd like them to know it, because I think it gives you compassion. Charlie Kaufman
children wife influence
If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters! Charlie Munger
children divorce class
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. Charles Simic