Quotes about children
children cancer mean
Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off limits. If someone's spouse died, or one of their children, I would never joke about that. I don't have any aspirations towards writing any cancer jokes, and there's some stuff that I think is definitely taboo. Amy Schumer
children party giving
If you cannot come to the party, do not cancel at the last minute or give a message to a child to inform the host. And don't bother explaining why you can't attend because anything after 'because' is bullshit. Amy Sedaris
children character chinese
I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix? Amy Tan
children fighting saws
I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...
children men people
But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.
children secret soup
Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
children writing school
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus. Amity Shlaes
children grandparent zombie
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.
children bud ears
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
children impossible-things answers
Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them. Allison Pearson
children men worry
Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.
children remember
The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.
children men light
My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.
children kids giving
When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.
children book mean
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at proper books, which means books without pictures. Anthony Browne
children said respiration
He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child. Anthony Burgess
children son civilization
We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.
children divorce elements
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.
children kids color
As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that. Anthony Bourdain
children thinking enough
I guess my whole life, as much as I might have wanted a child for the reason that everybody wants one, I always recognized that at no point until I was 50 was I old enough or up to the job. I thought, you know what, I not only really want a child, but at this point, finally in my life, I think I'm up to the job and I'm the type of person who could do the job well and I'm financially prepared to look after a child.
children kids fairness
In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.
children kids welcome
Italy is good in the sense that when you bring a child to a restaurant in Italy, they're happy to see it. The waiters will say "complimenti" and welcome you and dote after the kid. They don't treat you like you just brought in this horrible probably soon-to-be-squealing creature who's going to be difficult.
children
When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie.
children focus helping
Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.
children fall peaceful
I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world. Andy Rooney
children ive-learned should
I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
children believe age
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all. Andrew O'Hagan
children father divorce
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere. Andre Dubus
children wife shadow
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. Andre Breton
children mind adults
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
children parent would-be
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence. Andre Gide
children young advise
I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
children light justice
To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice. Ann Veneman