Quotes about child
children father believe
I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your children. You can believe he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man.
children ants should
The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect. Wayne Pacelle
children team roots
I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs. Wallace Shawn
children thinking understanding
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
children reality people
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
children people earth
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. Walker Percy
children people firsts
Children notice things first, people later.
children world landscape
Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards. Wallace Stegner
children punishment shame
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. Samuel Richardson
children parent world
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
children parent advice
Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
children anger prudent
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
children maturity animal
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.
children educational would-be
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
children punishment moments
Spare the rod and spoil the child. Samuel Butler
children prayer men
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
children real parent
How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
children years mind
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
children eye years
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
children would-be world
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
children race barbarians
No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money Samuel Gompers
children way gone
Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it. Samuel L. Jackson
children niece nephew
Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children. Salman Khan
children heart perfection
Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind. Salvador Dali
children thinking later-in-life
I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working. Salma Hayek
children high-heels stills
If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.
children thinking married
I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.
children book people
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book. Salman Rushdie
children poison adults
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
children parent prejudice
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
children reading thinking
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
children reading mean
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
children nice wonderful-friends
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.