Quotes about children
children fear lost playing practical spent time yearning
Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.
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Over the last few days, the world has finally woken up, but it took graphic images of dying children for this to happen, Jan Egeland
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Overweight children are at risk for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and other health problems, ... They're part of an epidemic of overweight and obesity that must be addressed so that they can lead healthier lives.
children generally naughty parents
Parents always think it's the kids' fault. If they're naughty, it's the kids' fault. Not true! Children generally are not naughty for no reason. Emma Thompson
children freedom given naked open true
My true friends, and my son, see me with kind eyes. I feel it. So that's the freedom my children have given me. To be naked in the world with an open heart. Sophie B. Hawkins
children fact integral life wife
My son is an integral part of my life; the fact of life is that parents and children need you; wife doesn't really need you. Sonu Nigam
children drew
My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared. Chris Riddell
children deeply differ held opposition people reasonable
My opposition to the aborting of unborn children has been a deeply held position of mine, ... Reasonable people do differ on these things. John Ashcroft
children life
My new life is being with my wife without any interference, and the children come see us every once in a while.
children four life lyrics mother sang wrote
My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked. Joy Harjo
children hold parents raise
My parents didn't raise me to hold children responsible for their parents' actions.
children learning york
My wife, children and I live in New York City, and that's going to be a learning process. I'm going to commute the first season. Treat Williams
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My wife and my children I can correct with harsh words and sharp lessons. I can strike them, but I do not think that this is a good thing to do. William Brewster
children five reason six wife
My wife and I have five children; the reason we have five children is because we do not want six Bill Cosby
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My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves. John Updike
children longer worried
My wife Judy and I have two kids: Connor, 17, and Meghan, who is 14. My wife and I no longer worry about what we become - we are worried about what our children become. Kevin McCarthy
children consuming dare discourage fast junk kids pyramid
My Pyramid for Kids doesn't dare to discourage children from consuming so much soda, fast food, candy, and other junk foods.
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My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation. John Caudwell
children husband stock themselves work
My husband was very enthusiastic, and my children are all investing. They have done some work with stock themselves because of our interest.
children hug instinct mommy
My mommy instinct is to go and hug my children.
children everybody large manage michelle private
Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in. Kathryn Harrison
children men tree
He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man. Alice Walker
children believe dust
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
children games play
We actually did go on a camping trip together as part of the research, in a caravan, for a week. I guess we picked who annoyed us most from genuine experience. We did a lot of research on camping and what annoys people. It's quite often children playing ball games. It's a huge debate in the caravan world whether children should be allowed to play ball games or not. Alice Lowe
children elderly half
Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable. Alice Meynell
children spring flower
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers; A poet's face asleep in this grey morn. Now in the midst of the old world forlorn A mystic child is set in these still hours. I keep this time, even before the flowers, Sacred to all the young and the unborn.
children taken civilization
Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.
children journey cheerful
There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence ...
children eye men
for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.
children years infancy-is
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.
children moving psychosis
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality. Alice Miller
children actors needs
The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.
children judging normal
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.