Quotes about children
children understanding way
That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
children forever understanding
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
children saws concerts
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw. Bebe Neuwirth
children men youth
men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to raise the children. Becca Fitzpatrick
children war fighting
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. Barry McCaffrey
children school kids
Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it. B. D. Wong
children giving want
I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back. B. B. King
children people may
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
children deserve-you world
In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider. B. F. Skinner
children foundation help involved parents provide
We need parents to be involved with their children, and we have so many who can't help their children with homework. By being able to better their education, their foundation is stronger, and they're able to provide more for their children.
children color deep desk ecology economics face hold maps models public sciences social south study tools
We need new tools and hypothetical models to study the ecology of disease, and we need interdisciplinary professionals from medicine, public health, economics and the social sciences to collaborate. This can't be shoved under the desk or put on hold because the maps show in color the disparities that children in the Deep South face every day.
children creative brain
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain. Bill Crawford
children eye heart
Children don't know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
children taken care
Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
children kids parent
Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you. Bill Cosby
children listening trying
Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.
children games stressful-situations
There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.
children students organized
A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student.
children dad men
My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.
children growing-up father
Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).
children discipline consistency
Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.
children laughter eye
The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child.
children emergencies dentist
If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. If you take them just for emergency, that's all they're gonna get.
children wife reason-why
My wife and I have five children. And the reason why we have five children is because we do notwantsix.
children brain damage
All Children Have Brain Damage!
children listening trying
Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.
children philadelphia tree
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.
children knowing giving
We spoke to God about the children, and we were afraid to ask God for specific things. We thought that it might be too much. So we said to God 'Please give us a healthy child' and left it at that, not knowing that God is a generous God, but also has a sense of humor. And if you leave that much open for God, some wonderful jokes are going to come about.
children grandparent
Grandparents are God's gifts to children.
children fatherhood helping
Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.
children parent watches
I'm not sure if my parents had me because they loved me, or because they wanted someone to watch their other children.
children information inability
What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.
children responsibility thinking
And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility.