Quotes about children
children giving priorities
If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday! Desmond Tutu
children beloved-wife tea
The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.
children wipe succeed
Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.
children world treasure
The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
children want patient
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
children heart wonderful
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
children giving moral
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
children world fractions
We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
children two mad
Nobody knows I'm different. Or they may know, but they don't know how different and they don't know what this thing is that's driving me because I can't... this is... these are charges ... which I understand having got two children of my own and having had these mad thoughts myself that you know, I've got to get out there and do something. I don't know what it is, but it's got to be interesting. Derek Taylor
children real mistake
You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it.
children autism parent
As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism. Deron Williams
children men doubt
What are men? Children who doubt. Derek Walcott
children greatest-fear parent
As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children. Derek Luke
children kids custody
As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s. Delia Ephron
children mean house
Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
children book autobiography
I have a children's book already out and my autobiography. Della Reese
children deep-affection needs
Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe. Deepak Chopra
children growing-up thinking
I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.
children self age
When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching.
children simple meditation
Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.
children eye born
Every child who is born is the universe looking at itself with fresh eyes.
children growing-up ideas
A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
children parent unhappy
By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?
children fun emotional
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills. Debbie Stabenow
children men thinking
It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage. Debbie Allen
children wall names
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. Debbie Macomber
children helping tradition
There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children. Debby Boone
children feels-just accomplishment
My children without a doubt are my greatest accomplishment. If I did nothing else I would feel just having and raising them would be enough. The rest is icing. Andie MacDowell
children emotional buying
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child. Anderson Cooper
children thinking literature
I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would. Amber Benson
children literacy mortality
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children Amartya Sen
children dad father
Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them. Anthony Quinn
children emotional light
We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light. Anthony Marra