Quotes about child
children believe commitment
My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how, and Im going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go. Phil Bredesen
children use hamburgers
We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever. Phil Donahue
children parent important
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
children food missing
Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
children trying
And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right. Phil Collins
children adults humans
When children see Michael Jackson they see a human being. When adults see him they see money.
children teaching school
How has the world of the child changed in the last 150 years?" The answer is. "It's hard to imagine any way in which it hasn't changed.They're immersed in all kinds of stuff that was unheard of 150 years ago, and yet if you look at schools today versus 100 years ago, they are more similar than dissimilar. Peter Senge
children teaching struggle
Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.
children soul rubbish
Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness. Peter Paul Rubens
children theatre cinema
I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. Peter O'Toole
children expectations important
Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known. Peter Johnston
children members our-family
Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now. Peter Jennings
children black-and-white generations
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance. Peter Jackson
childhood want direct
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
childhood world kingdoms
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood. Peter Cameron
children broken suffering
Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child. Piers Anthony
children growing-up grows
Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.
children paddling hundred
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred miles on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature. Pierre Trudeau
children prayer hate
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses! Phyllis Bottome
children thinking law
Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.
children eye eyes-of-a-child
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
children order lasts
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
children ambition towers
Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated. Phyllis McGinley
childhood sorrow forget
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.
children helping-others order
Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.
children hug praise
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
children want looks
You want to look younger... rent smaller children. Phyllis Diller
children writing dust
... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.
children growing-up silly
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
children humorous kids
We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .
children advice bottles
Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.
children father divorce
Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.
children blood immaturity
The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them. Philip Pullman