Quotes about children
children psychics parent
What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived Carl Jung
children parent
Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
children needs mythology
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
children educational suffering
Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.
children play imagination
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.
children knowledge parenting
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
children character childhood
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.
children sight personality
The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.
children personality attention
In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.
children names shalt stones thou work
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
children fascinate interested medium particular
Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular kind of book. I try to give children what I would give anybody, you know. I become interested in something. I find something fascinating. It has to fascinate me, and then I want to give it to them.
children disperse looking whether
We're looking at whether we can and should disperse some of the children into different schools.
children blow thinking
Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I'd knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog. Billy Sunday
children memories men
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and comcribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.
children mistake educational
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. Anne Sullivan
children names ideas
Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.
children city defeated failing great inspire nobel resident union win
What a great story to inspire our children of today. Not only can you be a resident of Union City and go on to win a Nobel Prize, but you shouldn't be defeated by the failing of a subject.
children four hall happening looked recreation
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall. Carl Stokes
children cultural felt good office rather using
We felt it would be a better use for the facility, rather than using it for office space. It would be a good hands-on experience, having the children there. It's part of their cultural history.
children education trap
My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me. Alison Moyet
children
Our children were trained to look after each other. Alan Ladd
children
It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. Anthony Hecht
children information
As a parent, the most responsible thing I can do is get as much information about my children as possible so I can then think through how I can make them as healthy as possible. Anne Wojcicki
children growing learning lives love lucky pursue work
I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning. Annette Bening
children clients coins family half investor looking million range sell
We sell to the range of clients - to the family who are looking at one or two coins for their children all the way up to an investor of half a million dollars.
children folks grown race talking
We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin. John Boyega
children met needs staff throughout town year
We're the only place in town where the needs of school-age children are met consistently throughout the year by the same two professional staff members.
children cuts libraries talking
We're talking about cuts to libraries my children use.
children good internet kinds living sorts
We need to say what sorts of Internet use are good for what kinds of children living in what kinds of contexts.
children forget listen respect talk
Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them. Anthony Browne
children imagination inspiring laureate post
Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.
children pages seen tend turn
As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.
children divorced environment four quickly suddenly
My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father. Anna Chancellor