Quotes about child
children ocean world
You can't be an environmentalist, you can't be an ocean steward without truly walking the walk and you can't walk the walk in the world of the future, the world ahead of us, the world of our children, not eating a plant-based diet. James Cameron
children thinking waiting
If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.
children touching looks
My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching. Jamelia
children mistake parent
I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them. Jamal Lewis
children years bored
Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied. James Agee
children book fighting
You don't fight to protect warships or old men. Like the book says, you fight to save your civilization. And so often it seems that civilization is composed mainly of the things women and children want. James A. Michener
children couple war
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.
children men artist
There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place. James A. Baldwin
childhood stories usual
I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read . The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy , and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.
children challenges live-in-the-moment
The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
children stronger world
The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers - to say nothing of one's children - to live according to the world's definitions: one must find a way, perpetually, to be stronger and better than that.
children light sea
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
children pay profit
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
children rain taken
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the 'conscience' of the civilized world.
children iraq embargo
Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo. Jacques Verges
children thinking long
We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board. Jada Pinkett Smith
children self-worth purpose
I feel that when a child has self-worth and purpose, that's what keeps them grounded.
children people looks
I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.
children school thinking
I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.
children book rose
I've written about domestic violence in my book, Lola Rose and it's a great relief to know that terrified children like Jayni, my fictional heroine can use the special website and find support and comfort. Jacqueline Wilson
children book belief
I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.
children hate despair
I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.
children soon-enough young
Soon never comes soon enough to a young child. Jacqueline Carey
children believe government
I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education. Jacqueline Novogratz
children believe humility
We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.
children determined
I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them. Jackie Gleason
children home men
A man must defend his home, his wife, his children, and his martini.
children chance raises
You have only one chance to raise your child. Jackie Kennedy
children growing-up men
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
children women memorable
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
children responsibility done
The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.
children powerful reading
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
children rock-and-roll bye
Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye. Jackson Browne