Quotes about child
children embarrass example learned minds nature speak
As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile. Joseph B. Wirthlin
children clothing experience family issues listen modern music patient seem touch urge vital
I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.
child dream english-scientist except laughed left money small
As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job. Jane Goodall
children expected
If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable. James E. Faust
children essential work
An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.
children deal reasons whine
A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something no one can fix? You deal with it. Junior Seau
children comedians mindless people reduce reject
Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes? Juan Williams
children freedom liberation
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them? Kate Millett
children pop
I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are. Kate Winslet
children lots people raised
Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.
children job life lived pick
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
children despite people spanish
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are! Katharine Lee Bates
child discuss fall handle head jewish love men mind mothers together women
I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two. Garry Shandling
children created happy parents
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
children tangled weave
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
children older time
The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young. Kris Kristofferson
children experience surreal
It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things. Ellar Coltrane
children letters thousands
If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them. Enid Blyton
children sings
I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper. Eddi Reader
children files liked medal unusual won
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people. E. L. Konigsburg
children ground mainly people sort
I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly children - are going to be sickened by eating a hamburger. Eric Schlosser
children animal self
What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good. Alanis Morissette
children opportunity years
I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
children big-families adults
I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal. Blake Lively
children careers acting
I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I want to pursue." So when I first started acting, I was more concerned with just being on a set and all of the woes of that, and I didn't really know it or understand it as a craft yet.
children shoes feet
My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child's foot. Blake Mycoskie
childhood
Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Blaise Pascal
children parent decay
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
children mistake grateful
It seems to me that the most fundamental mistake most parents make with children is to expect them to be grateful. Children are never grateful. ... The 'sacrifices' you made were not for them, they were for you. Billie Burke
children ambitious want
I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up. Billie Piper
children god-bless bless
God bless the child that's got his own, Billie Holiday
children news may
Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.
children fun team
When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week. Billie Jean King