Quotes about children
children attitude kids
If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something has gone wrong with the universe that's supposed to be perfect, we can demonstrate serenity and confidence in problem solving for our kids.By telling them that we know they have a problem and we know they can solve it, we can pass on a realistic attitude as well as empower our children with self-confidence and a sense of their own worth. Barbara Coloroso
children mean two
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
children integrity opportunity
When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.
children believe mean
Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me
children moving copyright
If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well Barbara Boxer
children men needs
I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them. Barbara Bush
children husband marvelous
I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
children loss thinking
I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
children likes election
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
children hero generations
Every generation of children has its private hero. Arthur Smith
children reality hands
Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important. Arthur Schopenhauer
children way genius
Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
children maturity errors
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.
children mean blessing
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.
children views ideas
The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.
children world genius
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
children lying theatre
In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.
children men race
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
children careers firsts
I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children. Arizona Muse
children men way
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men. Aristophanes
children childhood age
Old age is but a second childhood.
children wall war
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes and not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.
children poet masters
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
children moving people
...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty. Antonio Guterres
children germany austria
Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again. Antonio Munoz Molina
children responsibility personality
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late. Antonio Gramsci
children order discipline
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work...
children hands knows
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children. Antonio Porchia
children stuff actresses
I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them. Anushka Sharma
children loneliness world
I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in. Anzia Yezierska
children saint young
There is no sinner like a young saint. Aphra Behn
children men rights
The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims all men [and women] are endowed by their creator. Antonin Scalia
children perfect big-families
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.