Quotes about children
children laughing different
Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal. Danny Kaye
children war long
It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace Danny Glover
children rights movement
Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
children distance sea
I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly. Daniel Defoe
children house recluse
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't? Daniel Day-Lewis
children islands empathy
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. Daniel Dennett
children believe vaccines
We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also learned that the parents have been our best investigators in looking for both causes of autism and for treatments. Dan Burton
children communication sea
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle. Dan Brown
children illumination hands
The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.
children way different
Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way. David Fincher
children voice worry
It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child. David Foster Wallace
children want ifs
If you've never wept and want to, have a child.
children loneliness divorce
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.
children believe book
Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected. David Chipperfield
children parent rooms
I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room. David Copperfield
children simple night
The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats. David Cronenberg
children father chess
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that. David Bailey
children lenses use
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
children believe worms
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that. David Attenborough
children eye elderly
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of human beings. Children and the elderly in tropical regions (usually the poorest) are the most widely affected. A painful, slow death is virtually certain. The worm can actually live in the host for 17 years before the host finally dies.
children book reading
Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.
children creative pleasure
It's good to see the children be creative. It's the pleasure of the future. Donatella Versace
children thinking my-children
I think I asphyxiated my children.
children people earth
People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.
children thinking my-children
I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.
children atheism unhappy
I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size. Don Knotts
children people stories
I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah. Don Hewitt
children lovers poet
In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed Don McLean
children simple laughing
When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office. Dylan Moran
children eye people
Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.
children opportunity survival
[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work. Dwight D. Eisenhower
children military war
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
children tragedy politics
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.