Quotes about children
children powerful opportunity
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well. Stephen Covey
children heart night
Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night. Stephanie March
children growing-up squares
When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.
children people grace
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people. Stephanie Beacham
children thinking important
It's about not rewarding your children with food, not always celebrating with food. I do think it's important to find other ways to comfort our children and ourselves, to work other ways of celebrating and rewarding. Stephanie Klein
children clothes wife
You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me - and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me! Viktor E. Frankl
children sacrifice thinking
What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's present for their future. It seemed an either/or. I didn't realise that by being with one's own children I would have had a better understanding of the ones who are not my own. I was thinking of them but I didn't spend the time that they needed from me. It's a tribute to them that they came out so well. Vanessa Redgrave
children years only-child
I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me. Vanessa Paradis
children want my-children
I mostly want to be friends with my children.
children two inspire
I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me. Val Kilmer
children tree leaving
I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.
children humility divorced
You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
children america done
Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources? Utah Phillips
children father mean
I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean. Usher
children thinking nine
I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.
children atlanta relax
The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
children philosophy adults
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
children giving important
Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.
children grandmother knowing
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are. V. S. Naipaul
children home night
Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
children jamaica joints
In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too Usain Bolt
children war impact
The cost of war impacts all of us - both in the human cost and the cost that's being felt frankly in places like Flint, Michigan, where families and children are devastated and destroyed by completely failed infrastructure because of lack of investment. Tulsi Gabbard
children fighting views
From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting. Susie Orbach
children dancing rebellious
Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child. Suzanne Farrell
children hiking ballet
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
children taken cities
As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby. Susan Oliver
children generic
As a child, I was always playing some generic child. Susan Olsen
children hunting skills
Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too. Susan Mitchell
children home richness-of-life
It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work! Susan Wojcicki
children school kids
I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime. Susana Martinez
children party character
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child. Susanna Moodie
children lying crazy
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. Susanna Kaysen
children sacrifice katniss
Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen. Suzanne Collins