Quotes about child
children eye old-things
The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better. F. Scott Fitzgerald
children echoes parent
I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.
children rich great-gatsby-book
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
children giving wife
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third – before long the best lines cancel out – and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true
children ohio quality
Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
children play strange
Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.
childhood phrases veils
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom. Evelyn Waugh
children sensual feckless
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
children parent childhood
Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood. Evan Esar
children growing-up latin
Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.
children parent would-be
If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ... Ivy Compton-Burnett
children parent too-much
Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
children father focus
As President, my father will change the labor laws that were put into place at a time when women were not a significant portion of the workforce. And he will focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all. Ivanka Trump
children phones our-generation
Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone. Israel Broussard
children father simple
O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand. Israel Zangwill
children pain home
Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured. Isabel Wilkerson
children loss thinking
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow.
children believe feelings
I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child. Isabelle Adjani
children believe men
Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection to insure the enforced support of children, then you are marrying a man who, you suspect, would under certain conditions, refuse to support his children, and it is a pretty low-down proposition. For you are marrying a man whom you already suspect of being a villain. But I have not so poor an opinion of men that I believe the greater percentage of them to be such low specimens of humanity. Isadora Duncan
children learning giving
I do not teach children, I give them joy.
children feet giving
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
children smart parent
Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy. Irwin Edman
children wife care
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children. Irving Penn
children kids doctors
The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in. Irwin Redlener
children best-practices risk
If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.
children vaccines autism
The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.
children kids needs
Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
children school fighting
When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
children reality harder
The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
children oklahoma cities
Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
children fragility levels
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
children stress home
Many children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.
children pet
I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child. Ioan Gruffudd