Quotes about children
children lying integrity
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism. Eric Hoffer
children men suffering
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
children savages remember
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
children leader followers
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
children reality keys
Children are the keys of paradise.
children men literature
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
children knowledge grandparent
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
children believe fate
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by reason, but his important decisions have already been made: what kind of person he will marry, how many children he will have, what kind of bed he will die in... It is incredible to think, at first, that man's fate, all his nobility and all his degradation, is decided by a child no more than six years old, and usually three... (but) it is very easy to believe by looking at what is happening in the world today, and what happened yesterday, and seeing what will happen tomorrow. Eric Berne
children mean being-in-love
I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person. Eric Braeden
children thinking important
Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
children kids home
If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.
children knowing australia
We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child. Eric Bana
children rip swimming
Throw your children in the surf and let them get used to it. They have to learn all about rips and tides and swimming between the flags and all that sort of stuff. I know that sounds ridiculous but it's true.
children twelve only-child
An only child is never twelve. Enid Bagnold
children lying book
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups. Enid Blyton
children book writing
I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
children book play
I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
children swimming animal
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.
children wife married
You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize. Emo Philips
children night president
The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that".
children upside-down small-child
I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.
children history race series taught
The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially a series of race murders Sigmund Freud
children respect teach themselves
The first thing you should teach your children is respect; respect for yourself, themselves and others.
children house leave missed people quiet remain shot sign slug struck typical
You can see this is a typical neighborhood and there are children in this neighborhood. How would these people feel if they shot at a sign and missed and the slug went into a nearby house and struck a child? Let's leave the drive-bys to the big cities. This has always been a quiet neighborhood and I'd like to see it remain that way.
children hair people
The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child. Emmylou Harris
children home childhood
My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal. Emmeline Pankhurst
children fighting men
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.
children fighting men
If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.
children toxic humans
There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you. James Coburn
children thinking play
The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse. James Chanos
children men long
We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England. James Connolly
children practice consideration
It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration. James Cash Penney
children school humility
Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection. James Allen