Quotes about children
children childhood god-never-blinks
Your children get only one childhood. Regina Brett
children israel dinner
Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner! Red Buttons
children simple people
It's not the microwave that's the problem, it's what people put into them. I know people lead busy lives but they should try to sit their children down at the table once a week and cook them simple food. Raymond Blanc
children hate bags
When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.
children hate ideas
All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do. Raymond Smullyan
children men personality
As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying. Robert Boyle
children believe winning
TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy. Tom Shadyac
children hate passion
Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own, I hate them with a passion. Tom Hodgkinson
children father men
My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him. Toni Morrison
children thinking two
I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
children people ifs
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
children men good-man
I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.
children home two
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.
children people earth
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
children eight bread
My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that?Eight children and that's all I remember.
children two community
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
children eye light
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
children littles next
Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.
children hate reality
God bless little children while they're still too young to hate. Tom T. Hall
children insecurity nutrition
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. Tom Vilsack
children giving generosity
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. Tom Stoppard
children thinking order
Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
children writing thinking
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
children men air
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!
children drama play
My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them. Tom Perrotta
children people choices
After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.
children responsibility fighting
I think it's crucially important to be present in the lives of your children. They are my most important cause that I fight for. But I also feel an added responsibility that I want to leave them a better world than this one that we have now. Tom Morello
children rocks hard
When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#.
children school epidemics
If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress. Tom Harkin
children taught dies
I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies. Tom Glazer
children thinking dating
I think online dating is a way of procuring people. Like Facebook and Myspace, it's the way that people connect now and procure small children and sometimes dodgy relationships. I don't think it's very healthy. Tom Hardy
children native-american journey
If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian! Tom Brown, Jr.
children fall ambition
The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride. Tom Brokaw