Quotes about child
children law
Right... is the child of law. Jeremy Bentham
children hate my-children
I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me. Jeremy Clarkson
children memories thinking
I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think. Jennifer Ehle
children vitamins rich
Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins. Jennifer Egan
children loss views
That we need help is easy to see every time we walk down the street. The experts confirm what the obscured view in front of us tells us. They estimate that 64% of adults in the United States are obese and that this percentage is growing. Even our children are being affected, as nearly every one in three American children under the age of 18 is overweight. Jeff Schweitzer
children war people
Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die. Jeff Shaara
children powerful father
Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Jeff Greenfield
children school dancing
If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life. Jean Simmons
children liars believe
Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe. Jean Rhys
children heart and-love
When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them. Jean Vanier
children hero secret
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.
children self broken
Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.
children childhood age
But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie). Jean de La Fontaine
children accidents
I became a children's author by accident. Jerry Spinelli
children maturity years
When you've been in the business 5-years, as a person, it's like you're 5-years old - like a child. 10-years and you're 10-years old, 20... Etcetera. That's how I measure maturity in this industry. Jerry Seinfeld
children memories believe
That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still. Jerome K. Jerome
children giving people
I'm a professional. I don't want people to read something about me in the tabloids going out with celebrities or whatever. It might be a bit boring but I have to give values to my children. Jens Lehmann
children commitment issues
Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively. Jenny Shipley
children night common-sense
There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude. Jeffrey Kluger
children stress kids
Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?
children achievement adults
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
children autism childhood
A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.
children sibling school
When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.
children sibling single-child
Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have.
children drawing lines
She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines. Jeffrey Eugenides
children speak-english female
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
children world connections
It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again.
children book writing
I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book. Jeff Kinney
children intellectual desire
Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters. Jeff Koons
children arrows devil
Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil. Jim Elliot
children men two
My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape. Jim Gaffigan
children rights punishment
Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.
children frustration married
I reached a point in my life where I didn't really like who I was.I was married to an amazing woman. I had children, and yet there was frustration.