Quotes about children
children sibling believe
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder. Chuck Palahniuk
children father character
You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.
children writing ideas
As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.
children father character
As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.
children child-of-god lunatic
I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.
children people enthusiasm
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.
children believe imagination
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.
children book always-trying
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
children dying
You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.
children school learning
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Chuck Grassley
children men firsts
Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the first word he speaks. It is a cheap word because it requires no explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for intelligence who know only this word and have used it in place of thought on every occasion. Chuck Jones
children book tests
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
children thinking people
Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's only a matter of time. Chuck Klosterman
children rocks grandfather
Rock is my child and my grandfather. Chuck Berry
children kids parenting
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker. Christy Turlington
children people
I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
children parent important
Parents should be the most important examples for their children.
children should-have special
Every child should have a chance to feel special. Chuck Close
children actors performers
I was never a child actor. I was a child performer. Christopher Walken
children home years
My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.
children responsibility honor
To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being. - Arya Christopher Paolini
children father mean
I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.
children war teenager
In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers. Christopher McDougall
children kids wings
Every child has his own beauty, her own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him. Christopher Myers
children years childhood
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. Christopher Morley
children hero angel
The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [...] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies. Christopher Moore
children laughing judging
Marry for love, stay married, and raise happy children who are quick to laugh and slow to judge.
children people teeth
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.
children moving barns
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. Anouk Aimee
children house ruins
As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them. Anselm Kiefer
children legacy splendid
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price. Ansel Adams
children men giving
Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?" Saetan had replied: "Hope you're obliging enough to answer it for me. However, if you're backed into a corner, refer her to me. I've become accustomed to being shocked. Anne Bishop
children heart blow
The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die. Anne Bronte