Quotes about child
children book secret-identity
...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'. Salman Rushdie
children perspective parent
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
children want littles
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
children spy pages
I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
children midnight muslim-family
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
children worry leaving
If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
children years ideas
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
children eye intelligent
Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.
children language accepting
I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
children important raises
Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. Ryan Phillippe
children inspiration sadness
Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It's a place I want to take my children back to. It's a place that filled me with great joy and inspiration but also sadness. I think it's one of the most complex places on the planet.
children greatness doe
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. Rudolf Otto
children growing-up parent
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents. Rudolph A. Marcus
children men moon
The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun. Rudolfo Anaya
children giving-up play
If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world. Rudolf Steiner
children believe i-believe
I believe that children are our future Whitney Houston
children believe our-future
I believe the children are our future
children abuse four
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population. Wendy Craig
children angel heaven
When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.
children cowboy play
White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis. Ward Churchill
children school talking
Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues.
children cancer party
Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party. Wanda Sykes
children air play
People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was told, "This is development." And I said, "That is not development, definitely not sustainable development, definitely not responsible development. People need fresh air. They can do without buildings. They can do without concrete. But they cannot do without fresh air. Wangari Maathai
children waste wasting-time
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
childhood parent kind
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents. W. P. Kinsella
children dark ducks
I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind. W. G. Sebald
children thinking people
Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous... I don't think this helps us to survive... We're very species-centric... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth. W. S. Merwin
children war government
When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well W. S. Gilbert
children growing-up differences
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does. W. H. Auden
children animal faces
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
children hero history
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
children book adults
There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.
children recipes neurosis
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.