Quotes about child
children effort tasks
When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Fred Brooks
children insecure world
Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all. Franz Kafka
children safe totems
This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child…. Eric Zorn
children believe men
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost. Erich Maria Remarque
children blessing men
Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.' Erich Fromm
children character parent
The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.
children love-you love-is
Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination....
children opposites growth
Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.
children men years
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and the saint. I am the child and the adult. I am the man who lived 100000 years ago and the man who will live 100000 years from now.
children fighting neurosis
The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.
children writing thinking
I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space. Erica Jong
children ideas people
Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
children men news
We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
children women may
Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
children government self
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.
children school simple
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them. Eric Carle
children teenage men
Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children. Eric Cantona
children hands too-much
For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.
children sincerity authenticity
Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.
children mouths tongue
My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter. Enya
children hollies feelings
Holly frowned at her. "Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly." "Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative affect on mental health." "Child geniuses," growled Holly. "Genii," said Minerva. Eoin Colfer
children thinking parent
In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.
children men earth
A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH. George Eliot
childhood earth nostalgia
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
children deeds may
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
children teaching school
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him. Geoffrey Holder
children parent raises
If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent. Geoffrey Canada
children school giving
An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.
children past years
Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.
children hero giving
I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.
children thinking parent
This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more. Geoffrey Rush
children healing journey
Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one. Gary Ross
children war land
The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad. Gary Paulsen