Quotes about children
children hazard huge
This is a huge hazard because with children they can suffocate
children homicide horrible involved numerous prepares tragic
This is a horrible and tragic situation. I've been involved in numerous homicide investigations but nothing prepares you for children victims. Tom Cooper
children classrooms english environment global greater historic knowledge michigan opportunity return share students teachers teaching work
This is a historic opportunity in this global environment for Michigan teachers to work in Taiwan, teaching English to children there, then return to their classrooms in Michigan with a greater knowledge to share with our students here.
children court litigation opportunity provided represent
All I have ever wanted in the 12-plus years of this litigation is recognition that the children we represent are not provided the opportunity to learn. I now have that court order.
children reading feel-better
Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't. Elle Macpherson
children believe support
I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.
children cambridge-university work-ethic
Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to the Goons, I was studying, which enabled me to go to Cambridge University. Eric Idle
children hate men
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind. Eric Hoffer
children mean thinking
The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking. Mortimer Adler
children fun heart
A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are." Missi Pyle
children night interesting
I also have two children under three who keep me up all night and don't seem to understand the benefits of sitting in silence, which has presented an interesting challenge. Misha Collins
children class society
I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power. Paulo Freire
children philosophy educational
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are authoritarian, rigid, and dominating, the home will increase the climate of oppression. As these authoritarian relations between parents and children intensify, children in their infancy increasingly internalize the paternal authority.
children self discipline
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.
children thinking feelings
I have three children and I think I'm happy when I'm with them and they're okay. When I see them enjoying each other in front of me, and then they let me enjoy them in turn. That brings a feeling which I would say is happiness. Philip Seymour Hoffman
children want knows
When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
children men play
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. Philip Sidney
children legacy speech
The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
children heart writing
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
children letters praise
Nothing has a letter effect upon children than praise.
children believe winter
When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?' Philip Roth
children thinking lax
They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children. Philip Kaufman
children frank havens
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. Philip Johnson
children believe atheism
"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing." Peter De Vries
children successful new-ventures
The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations on it as it does for the rest of the company. When it's a new venture, whether it's outside or inside the business, it's a child. And you don't put a 40-pound pack on a 6-year-old's back when you take her hiking. Peter Drucker
children men self
The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services not controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their "product" is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult; a changed human life altogether.
children men two
The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives. Peter Benchley
children eye years
You get to live your life again through the eyes of your children. I conquered a fear the other day by going on a roller coaster, I haven't been on one in 15 years - I felt like I was six years old. Peter Andre
children school doe
You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it. Penelope Leach
children real confusing
A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.
children drama eye
Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.
children perfect-parents needs
Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.
children answers half
Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.