Quotes about children
children book writing
Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times! Daniel Pinkwater
children may forests
May the forests be with you and with your children. Daniel Quinn
children home needs
Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.
children abuse poison
We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.
children world fantastic
From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.
children future people
If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"
children ideas people
The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest.
children careers potters
If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'. Daniel Radcliffe
children philosophy book
I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this; I've got to get involved with this. I'm such a Philip Pullman fan and actually his philosophies, morals and the way he looks at the world. He does what he does brilliantly as a writer. He writes children's stories with major adult themes and major ideas about making the right choices. Daniel Craig
children
When we are no longer children, we are already dead. Damien Hirst
children thinking trying
Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
children military war
Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism. Cynthia McKinney
children vote telling-the-truth
The panelists on To Tell The Truth, which is the one that I really knew, they cared about getting it right. They wanted to guess, you know? Although, when I was on as a contestant, the one time I was on as a contestant, apparently they had a rule, which was that when children were on, everybody would get a vote - and Kitty Carlisle voted for me. Cynthia Nixon
children kids play
Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn't have.
children devil bed
Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow. Cotton Mather
children important want
I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me. Cory Monteith
children educational opportunity
If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril. Cory Booker
children love-you people
Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.
children past thinking
Every time I go past a cinema and see a queue out the door, I think, look at those fools, every penny they spend is turned into profits that are used to pass laws imprisoning their own children. Can't they see? Cory Doctorow
children naughty scare
These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.
children work-out ifs
I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt. Courteney Cox
children oregon brain
She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love. Clive Cussler
children ideas interesting
Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult. Clive Anderson
children tired age
I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter... Clive Barker
children kids interesting
The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid. Clint Eastwood
children thinking careers
Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That's the secret to life, really: never stop learning. It's the secret to career. I'm still working because I learn something new all the time. It's the secret to relationships. Never think you've got it all.
children dad sailing
I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn. Daria Werbowy
children parent canada
The fact that my parents got over to Canada is kind of amazing in and of itself. Had they not immigrated when I was a child, I probably would have never been doing what I'm doing. So, thanks, Canada!
children daddy looks
You know it's a sad day when your child looks at you and asks 'Daddy, are these organic?' Dylan Moran
children needs jam
When did you ever hear of a child not in need? 'Oh that's enough jam tart for me, I'll just go now and clean the toilets.'
children stupid drinking
Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island?
children going-away honest
Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'
children beer adults
You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don’t understand.