Quotes about children
children thinking people
I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them. Tony Benn
children doubt stories
If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
children choices-made research
The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments. Tony Abbott
children australia income
Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor
children views numbers
There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism. Tony Blair
children smart school
All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.
children growing-up parent
When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You don't need to be an expert to realise that sustainable development is going to become the greatest challenge we face this century
children parent choices
Any parent wants what is best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.
children moving heart
By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape. Thomas Wolfe
children giving advice
I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody. Robert Altman
children looks complicated
Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe. Robert Adams
children religion moral
Most gods have the morals of a spoiled child. Robert A. Heinlein
children men phones
Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn't dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed — or put itch powder in pressure suit.
children teaching thinking
Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.
children luxury perfect
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.
children inspirational-life chinese
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
children challenges risk
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.
children brave matter
Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
children men long
Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.
children firsts
Beatles, women and children first! Ringo Starr
children thinking force
I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to. Rihanna
children thinking remember
Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.
children love-is papa
There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth. Richie Sambora
children thinking government
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do. Tim Roth
children thinking america
It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry every day of their lives. No one can live - and grow - withoiut such a fundamental necessity as food. If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could end this crisis. Tim McGraw
children responsibility parent
It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is. Tig Notaro
children book world
I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child. Tilda Swinton
children character dark
I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.
children emotional ideas
What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.
children independent adults
I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults. Tim Allen
children want adults
I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.
children people motorcycle
I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.
children names fortune
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power Thomas Willis