Quotes about child
children good-person bigs
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. Vivienne Westwood
children rain snow
You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s. Vincent Van Gogh
children eight years
Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. Vladimir Lenin
children hate hatred
We must hate - hatred is the basis of communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists.
children years giving
Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.
children business moving
One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business... Wayne Dyer
children parenting your-children
Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.
children believe self
After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.
children needs stories
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest. Walter Benjamin
children ducks lakes
For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed? Virginia Woolf
children average numbers
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.
children house anxiety
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
children growing-up long
They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.
children powerful home
The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President's attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein? ... If you ask a question like: do you support the dropping of powerful explosives upon the heads of totally innocent men, women and children, demolishing their homes and their schools and their hospitals, are you in favour of that? That would change the answers, I think, quite a bit. William Blum
children tasks common
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. William Bennett
children teaching school
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
children adults example
There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.
children educational school
If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
children real mean
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
children eye people
The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.
children character needs
If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.
children spring wings
How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring? William Blake
children spring bird
Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
children heart voice
When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.
children rotting graves
He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
children men two
The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.
children abuse tears
But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
children mean responsibility
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. Wendy Wasserstein
children moon years
I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon. Wernher von Braun
children taken legacy
All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.
children home lessons
Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. Wentworth Miller
children moving growing
Very often, footage that you have shot develops its own dynamic, it's own life, that is totally unexpected, and moves away from you're original intentions. And you have to acknowledge, yes, there is a child growing and developing and moving in a direction that isn't expected-accept it as it is and let it develop its own life. Werner Herzog
children character quality
Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect