Quotes about children
children flower men
[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun. D. H. Lawrence
children men yield
A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.
children giving-up bears
Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
children fall mean
It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.
children wind sea
Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.
children firsts thirds
How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.
children fate bears
That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.
children hate men
But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.
children freedom fighting
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
children two voice
I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die. Crystal Waters
children giving world
The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest. Cristina Saralegui
children not-interested minors
I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors. Crystal Eastman
children order citizens
A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter. Cullen Hightower
children writing thinking
Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they are to young to understand in the least, and often in letters which are almost illiterate. If children are to be taught to respect the work of American poets I think some better way might be found to do so- some way which would not make such an inconsiderate demand on the author's time. Conrad Aiken
children school numbers
In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding. Clint Bolick
children school two
The new program for children in failing schools will be the largest statewide school choice program in the nation. The creation of that program plus the expansion of two others illustrates that states with the greatest experience with school choice are the most likely to expand it.
children keys imagination
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key. Clifton Fadiman
children reading specialty
Reading to small children is a specialty.
children profession
Being a child is in itself a profession.
children people parent
I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek' ... Clint Eastwood
children punishment would-be
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
children gun years
At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that?
children twenties united-states
Twenty-some states in the United States have statutes that say showing the nipples to children is oscene. That's the first thing we come into contact with when we arrive on this palnet: a woman's breasts!
children vulnerable fortune
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune. Claire Tomalin
children home wife
Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts. Clara Zetkin
children believe emotional
Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same. Clarence Darrow
children intelligent parent
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
children chloroform fit
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
children believe silly
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.
children imagination
Sympathy is the child of imagination
children opportunity too-much
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
children lying men
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
children teaching thinking
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.