Quotes about children
children hate men
But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may. D. H. Lawrence
children freedom fighting
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
children two voice
I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die. Crystal Waters
children giving world
The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest. Cristina Saralegui
children not-interested minors
I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors. Crystal Eastman
children order citizens
A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter. Cullen Hightower
children writing thinking
Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they are to young to understand in the least, and often in letters which are almost illiterate. If children are to be taught to respect the work of American poets I think some better way might be found to do so- some way which would not make such an inconsiderate demand on the author's time. Conrad Aiken
children school numbers
In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding. Clint Bolick
children school two
The new program for children in failing schools will be the largest statewide school choice program in the nation. The creation of that program plus the expansion of two others illustrates that states with the greatest experience with school choice are the most likely to expand it.
children keys imagination
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key. Clifton Fadiman
children reading specialty
Reading to small children is a specialty.
children profession
Being a child is in itself a profession.
children people parent
I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek' ... Clint Eastwood
children punishment would-be
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
children gun years
At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that?
children twenties united-states
Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman's breasts!
children vulnerable fortune
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune. Claire Tomalin
children home wife
Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts. Clara Zetkin
children believe emotional
Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same. Clarence Darrow
children intelligent parent
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
children chloroform fit
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
children believe silly
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.
children imagination
Sympathy is the child of imagination
children opportunity too-much
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
children lying men
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
children teaching thinking
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
children laughing different
Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal. Danny Kaye
children war long
It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace Danny Glover
children rights movement
Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
children distance sea
I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly. Daniel Defoe
children house recluse
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't? Daniel Day-Lewis
children islands empathy
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. Daniel Dennett
children fact women
The fact that he did this to other women and children is just awful.