Quotes about children
children gun empowerment
Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless. Maya Angelou
children mind world
The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.
children moats castles
You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.
children godly laughing
I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
children faces born
Hope is born again in the faces of children.
children black race-relations
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.
children growing-up real
I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
children our-children ifs
If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
children shoes needs
All God's children need traveling shoes.
children clean child-of-god
There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God.
children sibling real
Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.
children voice silence
We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.
children son blessing
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
children ignorance kids
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
children responsibility tomorrow
Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.
children parent immigrants
I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die. Maurice Sendak
children crazy anger
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
children stories
When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
children book writing
I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
children thinking spontaneity
We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
children believe reduction
I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.
children different spontaneity
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
children emotional painful-experiences
Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
children lying believe
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
children families half thirteen tribe
And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
children dan saw strong turned unto
And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
children daughter
And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.
children elderly woman
an elderly person/couple or woman with young children.
children create opportunity wealth
an opportunity to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children.
children fails families human proposed protect protective rule testing
A proposed rule on human pesticide testing that fails to protect children and families should be shelved immediately. A protective rule must be issued in its place, Barbara Boxer
children head jimmy plan schools sister tennessee three
Another sister of mine, Kathie, and Jimmy Acosta, and their three children, are en route, having to go out through Texas, and then head north. They're on their way to Tennessee where they all plan to take up residence, and enroll their children Christopher, 17, and Tyler, 11 in our schools here.
children drive dwell jerusalem unto
As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
children lots midst open staying
As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.