Quotes about children
children community
What its children become, that will the community become.
children drawn enter foot leave life moves period poised stage towards understanding
I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back. Khaled Hosseini
children until
Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later. Linda Ronstadt
children skulls battle
I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry. Jim Butcher
children shopping two
With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get. Jo Brand
children created designed effect encounter experience fewer funny parents room satisfying
What we've created is not just a room with funny lights, but we've created an encounter that is designed to have an effect on the child. Children and parents have a more satisfying experience and fewer children need to be sedated.
children concern experience fourth offered quality spaces sure therefore third worried
What we're worried about is the quality. Our concern is that so many of those people, because there is no availability of the quality spaces . . . are having to take their second, third or fourth choice, where they can't really be sure that a quality experience is being offered to their children and therefore they're worrying.
children engaged trying
What we're trying to do is to show how, in your own backyard, you can have a place where children are engaged by nature.
children father cry
My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?' Alexander MacLaren
children father blessed
If faith, then new birth; if new birth, then sonship; if sonship, then "an heir of God, and a joint-heir with Christ." But if you have not got your foot upon the lowest round of the ladder, you will never come within sight of the blessed face of Him who stands at the top of it, and who looks down to you at this moment, saying to you, "My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?
children father lying
If you would have clear and irrefragable for a perpetual joy, a glory and a defense, the unwavering confidence, "I am Thy child," go to God's throne, and lie down at the foot of it, and let the first thought be, "My Father in heaven; " and that will brighten, that will establish, that will make omnipotent in your life, the witness of the Spirit that you are the child of God.
children writing numbers
Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Alexander Pope
children men simplicity
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
children struggle men
The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive. Alex Graves
children doctors england
In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children. Alex Kingston
children thinking america
Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.
children sacrifice catholic
In the case of the Catholic Church, it's hard to understand how they so willfully sacrifice the children. Alex Gibney
children book successful
I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less. Alex Haley
children school teachers-unions
When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
children light giving
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light. Albert Schweitzer
children believe responsibility
I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic. Albert Pujols
children role-models roles
I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.
children born oldest-child
I've been the oldest child since before you were born E. L. Konigsburg
children kids acceptance
Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?
children book past
I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.
children parent mind
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child. E. Stanley Jones
children commitment age
Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security. E. O. Wilson
children powerful war
The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory.
children good-luck world
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line. E. M. Forster
children essence parent
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education.
children people behinds
I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
children home men
One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.
children class literature
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.