Quotes about children
children struggle doe
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious. Bruno Bettelheim
children fall hero
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today. Bruce Willis
children distance forever
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet. Bruce Chatwin
children hero blood
Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves. Bruce Cockburn
children past reality
Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs. Bruce Campbell
children snakes spiders
I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that. Britt Ekland
children sick people
I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them. Brian Michael Bendis
children eye light
I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang. Brian Greene
children want please
I want to have children, please God, with a woman that I love and that I'm very attracted to. Brandon T. Jackson
children moving ideas
I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on. Brandon Sanderson
children men age
Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.
children boys men
I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.” “To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but not credit. Or life insurance.” Abraham sounded amused. “You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.
children feelings
To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.
children hands use
Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand to spar. He’d done it almost without instruction. That had shocked Tukks. But why should it have? You were not shocked when a child knew how to breathe. You were not shocked when a skyeel took flight for the first time. You should not be shocked when you hand Kaladin Stormblessed a spear and he knows how to use it.
children real character
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. Arthur Conan Doyle
children thinking punishment
I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don't happen again. Archie Manning
children men miserable
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men. Archibald Alexander
children home parent
Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home. Aretha Franklin
children careers parent
I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do. Archie Panjabi
children actresses convinced
Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't! Antoinette Perry
children feelings perception
Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
children parent way
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies. Ben Marcus
children fiction faces
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
children school order
We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about. Barbara Jordan
children eye bereavement
I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you. Barbara Kingsolver
children giving be-careful
Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
children pigs shining
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
children work-out heartache
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
children men doe
God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
children night water
We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. But what else could we have thought? Only that it began and ended with us. What do we know, even now? Ask the children. Look at what they grew up to be. We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away.
children magic
But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
children men hair
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.
children kids people
The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.