Quotes about child
children believe law
As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable. Mary Robinson
children winter snow
The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child, Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.
children noble politician
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Mary Schmich
children divorce wedding-anniversary
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
children space wife
I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space. Mary Roach
children growing-up moving
The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many. Mary Roberts Rinehart
children men thinking
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child...
children grandchildren our-children
Our children are not going to be just "our children" Mary Calderone
children husband wife
Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
children responsibility moon
... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.
children perfection parent
But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.
children growing-up broken
Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.
children reading hunting
Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it. Martin Gardner
children book doe
The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.
children inspire film
I hope I inspire children to make films. Martin Freeman
children men jeans
When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.
children ambition son
A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son. Martin Farquhar Tupper
children teaching illustration
Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.
children world influence
The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating? Marshall Herskovitz
children television-commercials engineering
Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.
children school thinking
I think somewhere around high school, your brain starts to gel, to harden. Before that, there’s this time where anything is possible and the more things that you artistically and educationally have in your repertoire, the more you become a child of larger possibilities. Mark Mothersbaugh
children school unique
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere. Mark Foley
children school character
By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.
children prayer believe
She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone. Mario Puzo
children men trying
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
children world money-power
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
children men ideas
Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow. Marilyn Monroe
children average expecting
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
children lying people
I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.
children people age
If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option. Noam Chomsky
children outlook-on-life people
In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me. Nikki Sixx
children trying kind
I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love. I have been inspired by heartbreak. I try to take everything that comes at me in life. There have been times in my life that I didn't handle things... right. But even though you stumble, you still kind of get through it.
children hero battle
And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes Nikki Giovanni