Quotes about children
children arrogance credit
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him. Charles Horton Cooley
children race circles
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives. Charles Hamilton Houston
children pain heart
...she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design, offering little relief from pain, for being in accord with it means that the fortunate find themselves orphaned. Charles Frazier
children home men
The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail. Charles Farrar Browne
children selfishness able
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure. Charles Fourier
children kids men
A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't recognize that there's a zone of natural affection midway between the inner, or family one, and the outer, or all-humanity one. I suppose they are somehow short of a zone themselves and they seem to get vexed... The common man knows better, just as he'd know better if some philosopher told him he ought not to make invidious distinctions by feeding his own children in preference to others. But of course he can't explain; he just ... goes on feeding the kids. Charles Edward Montague
children kids interesting
The interesting thing now for No Child Left Behind is that there are very few advocates for it; there is no constituency for it. Parents don't like it, administrators don't like it, and kids don't like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it--which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program. Bob Schaffer
children school skills
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read. Bob Riley
children school focus
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
children believe should-have
In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
children secret way
The secret to raising children is to love them... And teach them to operate in a way you can tolerate them the best. Bob Saget
children unique shapes
Your children are not the same. Not at all. Each one is unique. There are no "boiler plate" clauses that fit all children. They are like snowflakes with their own patterns and their own shapes and their own sizes.
children war school
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to. Bob Brown
children writing voice
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth. Billy Wilder
children ghost-stories parent
As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone. Bipasha Basu
children reality two
When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
children thinking troops
John Kerry made a joke about Bush being a moron, and now Bush wants morons to think it was a joke was about the troops. ... Now, John Kerry has apologized. He said he made a botched joke and admitted that he has a joking problem. He has checked into an improv group and revealed that as a child, he was molested by a clown. Bill Maher
children deliver improve life lives work youngest
I will tell them that you can work hard, you can improve your life and the lives of your children in one day when you deliver your youngest child to the university, you will look her in the eye and say, 'You will give back.' Mia Love
children die life love wife
I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them. Medgar Evers
children
I've always been surrounded by children - never bothered by their noise. Gunter Grass
children marvel
In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.
children life
You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?' Harry Treadaway
children parent feelings
A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much. Louis C. K.
children thinking people
Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if that's true.
children self shoes
Any child who is self-sufficient , who can ties his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence. Maria Montessori
children war holiday
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same. Kurt Vonnegut
children now-and-then where-you-are
If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.
children entertainment morality
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. L. Frank Baum
children
Every child dances, and then you learn not to. Mark Morris
children europe parent
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe. Madeleine Albright
children college important
We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.
children parent grace
The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children George Will
children father eye
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. William Shakespeare