Quotes about children
children issues people
There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven't been able to walk away from it. Annie Lennox
children dirty school
When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
children only-child my-own
I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.
children giving want
I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.
children world example
It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
children growing-up writing
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
children surprise wonder
Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous. Annie Dillard
children wall men
Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born?
children long age
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.
children prayer thinking
By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.
children innocence beast
The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
children taken loss
She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.
children years world
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
children lying sight
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.
children mistake men
Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.
children reflection water
Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.
children brain trying
No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and the wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.
children dad kids
Before I was going to be an actress, I was going to be a veterinarian! I thought I was one as a child. I was the kid who was like, 'Daddy! I want a kitty! It needs a mommy!' And my dad was such a sucker. Every time I would beg, with tears flying down my face, about how this animal needs love, needs a home. He would cave. AnnaLynne McCord
children inspiration opportunity
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration. Clay Aiken
children thinking one-day
I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.
children acceptance people
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
children survival causes
UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?
children educational reality
Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world.
children lying way
I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.
children mean men
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents. Clayton Christensen
children self-esteem things-that-are-hard
Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.
children responsibility parent
My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility. Claire Danes
children world care
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
children actresses realizing
I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
children book people
The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself Daniel Keyes
children may hunger
A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.
children people spouse
People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child. Daniel Kahneman
children challenges ordinary
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a little child. We tend to glorify adulthood and wisdom and worldly prudence, but the Gospel reverses all this. The Gospel says that the inescapable condition of entrance into the divine fellowship is that we turn and become as a little child. D. Elton Trueblood