Quotes about children
children mind growth
The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth. Aristotle
children animal brave
All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.
children parent population
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
children race would-be
Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
children thinking people
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child. Ben Kingsley
children thinking acting
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.
children thinking trying
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.
children fantasy remember
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.
children empowering needs
Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.
children reflection changed
We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child. Ben Harper
children alive world
Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive.
children who-i-am trying
I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
children fire dread
The burnt child dreads the fire. Ben Jonson
children real nice
When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't. Eddie Vedder
children firsts way
I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child. Ed O'Brien
children couple simple
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette. Ed Markey
children population our-future
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
children attitude kindness
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. Every dollar we will ever earn must come from people. The person we love, and with whom we want to spend the rest of our life, is a human being with whom we must interact. Our children are individuals, each different from any other person who ever lived. And what affects them most is our attitude-the loving kindness they see and feel whenever we are around them. If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see. Earl Nightingale
children growing-up people
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into. Elizabeth Bibesco
children grandmother house
Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house. Elizabeth Bishop
children children-love spending-time
I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them. Elizabeth Edwards
children information difficult
By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
children parent gone
Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
children thinking losing
To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
children father three
I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
children blessing people
People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
children wings giving
I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
children grandmother blow
I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.
children thinking grieving
If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
children people suffering
Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all. Elizabeth Bowen
children book reading
The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.
children talking literature
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
children taken talking
With no banal reassuring grown-ups present, with grown-up intervention taken away, there is no limit to the terror strange children feel of each other, a terror life obscures but never ceases to justify. There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.