Quotes about children
children men democracy
I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it. Condoleezza Rice
children boys done
I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong. Cokie Roberts
children motherhood realizing
I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.
children brain age
Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison. Claude Vorilhon
children needs politics
While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society. Clarence Thomas
children heart destiny
Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay. Cormac McCarthy
children kids eye
But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness. Colin Farrell
children clothes lasts
The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well. Colin Firth
children vision plums
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. Clement Clarke Moore
children political genius
Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child. Clement Attlee
children politics communism
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
children garden years
My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered. Claude Monet
children giving-up wife
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.
children
Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.
children dawn should
No child should die in the dawn of life. Danny Thomas
children arms
I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child. Daphne du Maurier
children people puppy
I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.
children believe nurse
She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.
children pain war
War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health. Dan Simmons
children believe environment
I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment. Dan Savage
children war school
Yes, yes: Taking out Saddam Hussein means war, and war is bad for children and other living things. I went to grade school in the 1970s, and I recall the poster. But there are times when war is not only a tragic and unavoidable necessity, but also good for children and other living things.
children adults stability
Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
children gay america
Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.
children party cutting
On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This includes his big tax cut plan, partly bankrolled, critics say, through cuts in many federal aid programs for children and education. Dan Rather
children father messages
The message was that .. fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children. Dan Quayle
children real successful
I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.
children father character
It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.
children father character
Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.
children team eye
To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the flesh or otherwise) horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Select your team with care, but when in doubt, take on some new crew and give them a chance. But avoid at all costs fluctuations of sincerity with your best people. Dan Eldon
children woods sensibility
I'm a child of the woods. I have that sort of sensibility. Dan Fogelberg
children years adults
Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her. Billy Graham
children hands white
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
children mistake thinking
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.