Quotes about children
children angel light
The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens! Abhishek Bachchan
children war hero
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. A. J. Liebling
children believe answers
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next? A. J. P. Taylor
children dictatorship remarkable
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. A. N. Wilson
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There is nothing like the love or a child. A. J. McLean
children wild-imagination branches
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child. A. R. Rahman
children book television
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life. A. S. Byatt
children book numbers
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children.
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I was no good at being a child.
children nice son
She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good.
children feelings world
You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.
children education family good job opportunity sure
My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day. Rick Scott
children describe less pulling relationship stake tend
Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps.
children morning single time tiny wake
I'm knackered. I'm knackered all the time. My stupid, tiny children wake me up at 5:48 A.M. every single morning. Robert Webb
children desperate gap hear ignored invaluable largely learned lousy persons realised teacher though
During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world. Simon Hoggart
children concerns current date definition sync
The definition is out of date and out of sync with current nutritional concerns for children,
children order actors
In order to be able to cooperate with a child, you have to come down to below their level in order to communicate with them. Actors are also like children. Abbas Kiarostami
children japan way
When I met Akira Kurosawa in Japan, one question he asked me was, "How did you actually make the children act the way they do? I do have children in my films but I find that I reduce and reduce their presence until I have to get rid of them because there's no way that I can direct them."
children adventure piglet
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. A. A. Milne
children fun writing
The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.
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In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life. Jane Velez-Mitchell
children soul arrogance
Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for. Aeschylus
children father choices
I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices. Adrienne Rich
children feelings suffering
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
children motherhood identity
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
children believe bad-ass
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
children newborn-child names
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
children new-relationship motherhood
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
children humble littles
I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..." Agatha Christie
children past views
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.
children suffering interference
More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.
children judging doubt
marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.
children reality thinking
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.