Quotes about children
children library world
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change. Stacy Schiff
children sadness way
For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child. Soren Kierkegaard
children kids college
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child Stephen Stills
children father men
Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men. Stephen Vincent Benet
children hate healing
How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point? Stephenie Meyer
children goal lawyer
As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.
children regret mistake
You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.
children revolution assuming
The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership. Marco Rubio
children rights belief
I respect the rights of those who do not share my beliefs...but to teach my faith to my children...and to share it with anyone who will listen...that is my right too!
children years two
I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system.
children opportunity land
I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America? What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?
children issues community
The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?
children men rights
We have enshrined in our founding documents and promoted the fundamental truth, all around the world, that the rights of all men, women and children ,not simply Americans come from God.
children educational school
We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.
children giving want
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.
children government tools
The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.
children care reason
If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. Marcus Aurelius
children age youth
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?
children war holiday
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.
children thinking plant
Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.
children moving two
If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.
children men tyrants
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.
children names opinion
Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.
children emotion sleeves
I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve. Marcia Gay Harden
children keys world
The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world. Marc Forster
children years next
Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years. Marc Faber
children
I am a child who is getting on. Marc Chagall
children decision answers
My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension. Thomas a Kempis
children innovation mind
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. Thomas A. Edison
children lying school
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
children genius
Sticking to it is the genius.
children memories stress
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
children years age
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.