Quotes about children
children believe responsibility
Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger or a child in central Asia. But I will not accept responsibility for what other people do because I happen to belong to that nation or that race or that religion. I do not believe in guilt by association. Margaret Mead
children teaching simple
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
children sleep independent
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.
children future mean
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
children growing-up today
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
children home happy-home
Every child's birthright is a happy home. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
children past years
The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out. Margaret Drabble
children school flying
I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.
children play black
There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman. Margaret Halsey
children business large-groups
A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives ...
children business people
the position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves ...
children men justice
It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.
children boys white
you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.
children justice democracy
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
children parent path
there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path. Margaret Fuller
children character parent
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
children hug fats
You know you are fat when you hug a child and it gets lost. Marcus Brigstocke
children challenges teach
Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others. Marcus Buckingham
children men training
We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism. Marcus Garvey
children tvs my-children
I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV. Kimora Lee Simmons
children hands community
All children can do things to help, whether how big or small - by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.
children mistake thinking
One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married. Kin Hubbard
children tears want
We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.
children men fellow-man
The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty. Kevin Watkins
children views ideas
Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center of the universe. Children are miniature adults. At one time in history each of these beliefs was generally held to be true. Each, however, gave way to different ideas and even different world views. Michael Lewis
children hands parent
Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.
children thinking ideas
I think that idea of alienation, for whatever reason, is still very prevalent within our society and a lot of people deal with it - most people deal with it at some point in their life unless they're sort of the golden child. I think that's something that we all need to address. Michael Fassbender
children organization support
If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing-by far-is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children. Michael Bloomberg
children kids thinking
The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don't die of diarrhea anymore, but it's a huge problem in the developing world. Melinda Gates
children world causes
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
children school thinking
I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
children polio-vaccine vaccines
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
children love-you parent
As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.