Quotes about children
children impossible parenthood
Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God. Ann Voskamp
children motherhood soul
Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
children light warning
The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
children land names
Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name? Andy Partridge
children wonder fats
I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac. Alber Elbaz
children self attributes
Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy Albert Bandura
children social instruction
[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons
children growing-up kids
If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
children peers popularity
Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity
children use information
How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest
children yield self
To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers
children research information
A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation
children way success-and-failure
Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others
children use problem
Wrong and inappropriate use has caused LSD to become my problem child, Albert Hofmann
children believe practice
I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.
children kids degrees
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. Albert Ellis
children school thinking
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
children long support
I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine. Albert Brooks
children simple enough
The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand. Albert Camus
children men air
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
children father ideas
No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
children self personality
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.
children philosophy judging
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
children men perfect
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
children numbers world
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
children smiley gregarious
I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went. America Ferrera
children perspective challenges
As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.
children home
Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes. Amanda Palmer
children winning hands
I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part. Annie Besant
children powerful men
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
children men ideas
The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.
children real childhood
To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.
children medicine healthy
Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family. Annie Lennox