Quotes about children
children humanity interest
...in serving the best interests of children, we serve the best interests of all humanity. Carol Bellamy
children powerful rights
A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.
children pregnancy responsibility
I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child Carol Alt
children love-you parent
When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.
children light house
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light Carol Ann Duffy
children childhood
Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
children thinking enabling
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
children matter no-matter-what
Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have
children real long
I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes. Carnie Wilson
children moving able
I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.
children educational passion
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom. Alan Keyes
children cutting emotional
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life. Alan Lightman
children pain voice
Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old. Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
children revenge games
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games. Alan Dean Foster
children grandparent doe
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. Alan Dundes
children rights justice
This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children. Alan Dershowitz
children oxygen two
Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who had only two hours of oxygen left before death. And it would be the right thing to do,
children book reading
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career. Al Yankovic
children father grew
When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins. Alain de Botton
children parent mind
The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
children stupid teaching
Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed. Al Green
children want succeed
No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
children people ignored
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary. Al Capp
children father son
Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?
children grandmother focus
Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers. Al Franken
children early involved moms physically today wholesome
Moms today want to be emotionally and physically involved with their children very early on. It's all about the wholesome child.
children desire doubt inflame liberate longs men mother wise
Mother Veda is compassionate; she longs to liberate her children from doubt and discontent. She has no desire to inflame or confuse; wise men know this well. Sathya Baba
children full hand legacy life love mothers refuse remember stops taught wonder
Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here. Melissa Etheridge
children mother plus
Mother had 70 children in these two homes, plus a little chapel.
children generation
May there be a generation of children, On the children of your children.
children friendship grace guide halls joy laughter light living paths smile trip twinkle
May the light of friendship guide your paths together. May the laughter of children grace the halls of your Home. May the joy of living for one another trip a smile from your lips, a twinkle from your eye.
children depends developing goals meeting millennium reaching throughout vulnerable
Meeting the Millennium Development Goals depends on reaching vulnerable children throughout the developing world. Ann Veneman
children die guns single
Meanwhile, every single day, there are 13 children who die from guns in this country. Bill Clinton