Quotes about children
children older time
The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young. Kris Kristofferson
children experience surreal
It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things. Ellar Coltrane
children letters thousands
If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them. Enid Blyton
children sings
I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper. Eddi Reader
children files liked medal unusual won
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people. E. L. Konigsburg
children ground mainly people sort
I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly children - are going to be sickened by eating a hamburger. Eric Schlosser
children animal self
What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good. Alanis Morissette
children opportunity years
I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
children big-families adults
I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal. Blake Lively
children careers acting
I never really thought about acting as a child. It wasn't like, "This is the career that I want to pursue." So when I first started acting, I was more concerned with just being on a set and all of the woes of that, and I didn't really know it or understand it as a craft yet.
children shoes feet
My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child's foot. Blake Mycoskie
children parent decay
Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature. Blaise Pascal
children mistake grateful
It seems to me that the most fundamental mistake most parents make with children is to expect them to be grateful. Children are never grateful. ... The 'sacrifices' you made were not for them, they were for you. Billie Burke
children ambitious want
I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up. Billie Piper
children god-bless bless
God bless the child that's got his own, Billie Holiday
children news may
Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.
children fun team
When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week. Billie Jean King
children tennis adults
I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.
children house drug
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. Billie Joe Armstrong
children fall kids
Every child needs a safe place to fall - a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment. A library is one of those places. In a library you can learn by following your own nose, which is very different from someone telling you what you should learn. Once a kid learns a library is hers, to use as she wants, the world opens up., I've seen it happen. It happened to me. Bill Harley
children proud praying
If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud. Bill Hybels
children satan economic
It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet... Bill Hicks
children gone happened work
When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'. Kevin Bacon
children tendency trying
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something. Kent Haruf
children extended family health issues perhaps remind
Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family. Kathleen Sebelius
children
Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes. Keeley Hawes
children
I always had cats and animals, so children were never really in my thoughts. Jacqueline Bisset
children movies
I really like children to watch my movies. Jackie Chan
children development intimate
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do. Chris Crutcher
children needs littles
When I found out I had to take off my shirt in Teen movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, “It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle. Chris Evans
children world care
Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come. Chris Cornell
children love people
I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing. Terry Jones
children integrate order
Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe. T'Keyah Crystal Keymah