Quotes about children
children growing-up character
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die. Barbara Kingsolver
children seven minutes
Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
children boys dust
I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.
children teenager giving
When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we know it. I do know that answer to that one: that's called child abuse. When my teenager worries that her generation won't be able to fix this problem, I have to admit to her that it won't be up to her generation. It's up to mine. This is a now-or-never kind of project.
children thinking dust
I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.
children magic littles
We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
children rain mean
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.
children flower thinking
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus from the land makes me unspeakably sad. I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant's way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in.
children people behaviour
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
children believe people
I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope. Bahman Ghobadi
children crazy character
I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!' Bai Ling
children men race
O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.
children thinking needs
Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that. Asia Argento
children elders living social targeting vulnerable weak
We are targeting vulnerable elders with a weak social network, particularly those without children and living alone.
children looking
We're looking into her as a caregiver to her own children.
children creativity math needs program respond takes talents testing
This program takes away teachers' creativity to respond to the different needs and talents of our children with one-size-fits-all testing in reading, math and science.
children critical disabled program
This program is critical to the elderly, disabled and children of this state, Tom Vilsack
children
There are two tragedies, ... One is my children and the other is my wife. Andrea Yates
children perfect oxymoron
I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron. Barbara Park
children believe book
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
children privacy feels
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings. Barbara Mertz
children stupid believe
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
children relief standing-out
The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child. Auguste Rodin
children should circumstances
All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. Augusten Burroughs
children puppy
Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.
children teenager school
My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy discourages this. They feel your gun should rarely, if ever, be brought out of its holster. Most certainly not when children are involved, which is exactly when I saw myself using my gun most often. A truant teenager loitering outside a movie theater is going to be far more motivated to return to school when he has the barrel of a .45 pressed against his cheek.
children childhood racist
As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
children ugly monkeys
I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.
children brain knows
Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.
children boys night
Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard to stay awake. A small boy will never be harshly criticized at a funeral; he is more treasured as death comes close and all his wickedness vanishes before the inescapable fact that thank God, he is healthy. Arthur Miller
children shopping wife
The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.
children crazy writing
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
children nice fighting
I'll fight a man with three children and a nice house any day over a man that's living out of a car. Art Briles