Quotes about child
children family happen history instantly longer
It's the history of who you are, your family and your background, they just take a longer perspective. If it doesn't happen instantly like Americans want, that's fine. If I don't make it, my children will, and you could really see that patience.
children excitement people
It's like children getting new toys. But the excitement is over. People should be over it. Judith Martin
children fact feels half hour people recreation school system three
It just feels like home. I have three young children and from the school system to recreation to the people this is just a place that feels right. The fact that it's only an hour and a half from where I work, just made it perfect. Tim Hudson
children deserved hard people provide recognize safety water
It is well deserved that they recognize people who are working very hard to provide safety for our children, especially with all the water in our community, ... I can't say enough about Dottie and her dedication, not only to the children, but to the community.
children diabetes early evidence growing health overweight problems range serious tend
It is very serious for children because there is growing evidence of early onset diabetes in children who are overweight. Children who are overweight tend to grow into adults who have a range of health problems as well.
children enjoy fruits school time
It is time for these children to go home, go to school and enjoy the fruits of peace.
children deal grammy means pop visible
It means a lot to my children. For them, it's a big deal because the Grammy nominations are so visible on the pop side. Leon Botstein
children years voice
When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it. Loleatta Holloway
children israel increase
I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests. Lois Capps
children america today
In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. Lois Capps
children school vegetables
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more. Lois Capps
children school cafeteria
Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias. Lois Capps
children winning views
A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing. Lois Wyse
children remember forget
Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children. Lois Wyse
children book literature
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. Lois Lowry
children team valentine
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box. Lois Lowry
children book reading
I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience. Lois Lowry
children book reading
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books. Lois Lowry
children kids home
As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries. Lois Lowry
children book elsewhere
It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. Lois Lowry
children giving community
Ever since I was young I understood the whole meaning of life isn't how much money you accumulate, how much fame you experience, it's how many lives you touch, how many faces you bring smiles to. I see myself back in Hawaii doing something in the community to improve the lives of young children. Everything I've done is to prepare myself to give back. Manti Te'o
children giving shows
Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish Mao Zedong
children boss birth-control
Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups. Madeleine M. Kunin
childhood birth early-childhood
Early childhood education begins early, even before birth. Madeleine M. Kunin
children adults compromise
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how. Madeleine M. Kunin
children husband writing
During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump. Madeleine L'Engle
children hero men
The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves. Madeleine L'Engle
children book not-good-enough
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. Madeleine L'Engle
children real artist
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. Madeleine L'Engle
children flower jumping
As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers Madeleine L'Engle
children giving left
What can we give a child when there is nothing left? Madeleine L'Engle
children teaching facts
You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children Madeleine L'Engle
children book mind
One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof. Madeleine L'Engle