Quotes about child
children eye cities
Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution. Aristotle
children mind growth
The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
children animal brave
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.
children parent population
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
children race would-be
Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
children thinking people
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child. Ben Kingsley
children thinking acting
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
children thinking trying
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
children fantasy remember
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
children empowering needs
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
children reflection changed
We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child. Ben Harper
children alive world
Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive.
children who-i-am trying
I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
children fire dread
The burnt child dreads the fire. Ben Jonson
child good happy hopefully mom music
I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own. LeAnn Rimes
children real thinking
If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself. Anne Sullivan
children writing thinking
Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.
children real teaching
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.
children mean helping-others
When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others. Ahmed Zewail
children women priorities
Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.
children concerned grow risks
We're concerned because we know that children who have cardiovascular risks grow up to be adults who have these risks.
children collect concerned school taken
We're concerned about children being taken out of school to collect water.
children days eager focus lives mourning recommend schools seem three
We recommend three days of mourning and that all schools get under way on Monday. The children seem to be eager to go back to school. I think the focus in the lives of these children has to be re-established.
children education families goes home learn names parents question teachers teaching
We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on. Rod McKuen
children entertain manages please time trying
Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like 'Shrek' or 'The Simpsons,' 'Robin Hood' manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.
childhood experience teenage
I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally. Robbie Robertson
child goal home life
My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life. S. E. Hinton
children world legacy
A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place? Alexis Stewart
children teenager book
Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them. Alexandra Robbins
children blood greek
I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them. Alexandra Wentworth
children feelings may
...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned. Alexandre Dumas
children father men
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.
children issues quality
The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life. Alexandra Paul