Quotes about children
children writing order
The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a new sauce for the meat, a young author writing his first novel; all of these are in terms of definition, Creative, and there is no attempt to set them in some order of more or less Creative. Carl Rogers
children hero long
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? Carl Sagan
children mean survival
A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchisin g them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.
children cutting winter
Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?
children important way
Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .
children sky earth
As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky
children reality imagination
Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
children sky earth
We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.
children hands america
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstitions and darkness.
children firsts consumerism
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry. Bill Bryson
children confused views
Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Woods choke off views & leave you muddled & without bearings. They make you feel small & confused & vulnerable, like a small child lost in a crowd of strange legs. Stand in a desert or prairie & you know you are in a big space. Stand in the woods and you only sense it. They are vast, featureless nowhere. And they are alive.
children men giving
If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again. Bette Davis
children believe parent
I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
children believe home
Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
children justice parent
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all. Bernadette Devlin
children suspense potters
'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. Berkeley Breathed
children book writing
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
children mean mind
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds. Benjamin Rush
children thinking realizing
You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't know. It's infinitely rewarding. Ashton Kutcher
children grandmother world
My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing. Arnon Goldfinger
children careers doctors
At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children. Arsenio Hall
children parent way
Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be. Art Alexakis
children confused ice-cream
It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous. Arsene Wenger
children people malice
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. Antoine Rivarol
children facilities fight last necessary office protected sure until
... I will fight until my last day in office to make sure that our children are protected and that they have the facilities necessary to be kids,
children necessary whatever
I will do whatever is necessary to get our children home.
children drowned families good greater morning opportunity sad thinking wept
I wept this morning thinking about our city. I was thinking about the families and children who drowned in their homes. It's a sad thing but we see an opportunity to do a greater good than has ever been done. Danny Wuerffel
children city drowned families good greater incredibly joy morning opportunity somehow thinking time vision wept
I wept this morning thinking about our city and thinking about the many families and children that probably drowned in their homes, so it's incredibly sad. And yet somehow at the same time we've experienced a kind of joy and vision and see an opportunity to do a greater good than we've ever done before.
children
I will never see Jessie go on her first date. I will never be a grandfather to her children.
children help lost news seeing turn watching
I was just watching the news and seeing those children who had lost everything. I couldn't turn it off. I thought, there has to be some way to help these kids.
children current door hurt revolving system women
It is a system that is broken, ... Men, women and children are getting hurt with that current law, with revolving door marriages.
children extent information kindly protected shield
It is a protected world. To some extent at least you have to shield children from what you know and drip-feed information to them. Sometimes that is kindly meant, and sometimes not. Kazuo Ishiguro
children choice health investment parents pay price question whether
It is a question of whether children should have to pay the price for their parents' choices. Children are an investment in our future, and you want to invest in their health and well-being.