Quotes about children
children teaching school
Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact. Tom DeLay
children analysis damage
Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. Tom DeMarco
children film strive
Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn. Tom Cruise
children government income
The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid. Tom Anderson
children parenting focus
The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus. Todd Tiahrt
children thinking numbers
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm. Tom Allen
children war cutting
To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it
children father pakistan
My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens. Tino Sehgal
children our-world autistic
Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen. Tisha Campbell-Martin
children moving piano
I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano. Tobe Hooper
children glory peril
Glory is the child of peril. Tobias Smollett
children littles firsts
Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more. Tobin Bell
children important acting
Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me. Soleil Moon Frye
children parent safe
I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet.
children rap hard-work
And when I smiled, 'Bing!' I almost blinded her. She said, 'Great Scot, are you a thief? Seems like you have a mouth full of gold teeth!' Hahahaha, had to find that funny, So I said, 'No child, I work hard for the money. And calling me a thief? Please...don't even try it, Sit down, eat your slice of pizza, and be quiet.' Slick Rick
children thinking poverty
When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think! Slavoj Zizek
children sick muffins
I love to bake, so I made vanilla bean and blueberry muffins for sick hospital children. Just kidding! All of that is true except the sick children part. Sloane Crosley
children native-american men
What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken? Sitting Bull
children mean land
If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
children games hunters
I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie mice, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.
children warrior sacrifice
For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.
children opportunity long
The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge. Sissela Bok
children epidemics america
America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.
children communication home
Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.
children husband texas
If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that. Sissy Spacek
children two parent
My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.
children reading glowing
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner. Siri Hustvedt
children justice causes
My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren. Simon Wiesenthal
children legacy loved-ones
It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt. Simon Van Booy
children finals adults
Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
children disappointment people
Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.
children play preparation
In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life. Sinclair Lewis
children would-be wonderful
It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized. Sinead O'Connor