Quotes about child
children needs waste
We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish. Philip Pullman
children intelligent adults
Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.
children golden should
Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
children fighting dragons
Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound.
children book fiction
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
children mean justice
The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.
children book writing
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.
children waiting annoying
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying. Rachel Cusk
children creativity writing
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
children people firsts
Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
childhood curiosity states
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
children adults company
I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.
children writing risk
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
children couple winter
I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened. Rachel Cohn
children creativity awe-and-wonder
If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. Rachel Carson
children heart tears
Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves. Rabindranath Tagore
children dust mystery
The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.
children aspiration guise
Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.
children school discipline
When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.
children newborn-child newborn
We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.
children my-children
I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.
children men born
For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.
children flower writing
April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.
children school people
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.
children tyrants lessons
The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons
children media skills
It's about using social media for social change: creating a community of advocates who can use their voices on behalf of the voiceless, or leverage their talents, skills, knowledge, and resources to put more children into classrooms, or pressure their elected representatives to get global education top of the agenda. Queen Rania of Jordan
children opportunity safety
I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
children believe world
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
children women thinking
Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society. Queen Victoria
children parent lessons
The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.
children men educate
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men. Pythagoras
children men knees
A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.
children weekend tree
When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams. Pippa Middleton