Quotes about children
children life-is-too-short waiting
Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets. Mary Engelbreit
children support earning
So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd. Paul Bettany
children guy lines
I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?
children responsibility community
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children. Patricia Hill Collins
children men wife
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line? Patricia Ireland
children racism decision
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
children blow two
one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill. Patricia Highsmith
children husband feel-better
Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband. Patricia Heaton
children kids abortion
Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.
children book mean
Is it like a Harry Potter thing?" He turned his head then. "A what?" "A Harry Potter thing," she said again. "You know, don't say Voldemort's name because you might attract his attention?" He considered it. "You mean the children's book." "I have got to get you to watch more movies," she said. "You'd enjoy these. Yes, I mean the children's book. Patricia Briggs
children eye winning
Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered if Isaac did this all the time-and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like "Local Alpha Trips Over Child" or "Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.
children sacrifice world
You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.
children play fire
It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.
children men immortality
A man's immortality can be found in his children.
children enemy public-enemies
I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy, Pat Morita
children school third-grade
Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education. Pat Paulsen
children wife feelings
I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions. Paddy Considine
children world adults
You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children. Pablo Casals
children lying thinking
Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous ...
children unique parent
What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.
children miracle world
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
children two paris
What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are?
children miracle end-of-the-world
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the...
children wine night
Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth... Pablo Neruda
children garden childhood
Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
children men play
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
children grandmother rooms
My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead. P. J. O'Rourke
children way different
Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own. Plato
children parenting beast
From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
children compulsion train
Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.
children games soul
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.
children plato parenting
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
children plato father
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.