Quotes about children
children calamity educated
Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity. Dwight D. Eisenhower
children blessing culture
The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing. But in our culture we apply for a curse and reject blessings. Something is wrong with this picture. Doug Phillips
children lord teach
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?
children responsibility land
Have you seen Cowspiracy? It takes a lot more land to feed a meat eater than to feed a vegan or a vegetarian. It's something I'd love to get into but it's very hard to persuade people to stop things they've been doing for a long time. So maybe it needs to start with the next generation. Everyone needs to raise their children with a bit more responsibility. Douglas Booth
children writing cards
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card. Doug Stanhope
children police crime
Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness.
children what-if freedom-of-speech
I'll defend child pornography, how about that? What's wrong with seeing some child pornography? What if you watch child pornography because you find it hilarious? Then should it not a protected freedom of speech?
children believe thinking
Abortion is green! I think its irrefutable, but people don't want to hear that. For most people, having children is an instinctual, natural desire and the last thing they want to do is believe that it has any detrimental side, or if they do believe it, they think it's different for them because they live in a gated community or whatever the reason...
children hate people
You say you hate children and people always say the same thing; it would be different if it was your own child. Well what if it wasn't?
children drinking people
Every 17 seconds a child dies on this planet from no clean drinking water. Good. Let's try to speed it up... there are too many people.
children parent language
If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.
children animal littles
It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know? Douglas Adams
children maturity order
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.
children stupid intelligent
Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.
children party mean
One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and regressive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots, or, more and more frequently, both.
children real talking
It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.
children thinking names
But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
children writing years
If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it. Dorothy Allison
children heart people
My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn't know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately.
children crazy believe
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.
children school thinking
There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them. Doris Lessing
children delight ability
Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?
children spring interesting
But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.
children belief talent
It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.
children lying book
Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.
children capacity
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
children stupid understanding
It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.
children intelligent boring
There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
children immature doe
Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.
children caring needs
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children. Donna Shalala
children writing thinking
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence. Donna Tartt
children lying thinking
Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time
children emotional adults
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.