Quotes about children
children may cost
Have you given your child unreservedly to the Lord for whatever He will? ...O may He strengthen you to say YES to Him if He asks something which costs. Amy Carmichael
children growing-up parenting
If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.
children people may
When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence. Amos Bronson Alcott
children book character
Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
children abortion population
A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children. Alveda King
children disruptive
I was a disruptive child. Allyson Felix
children liars lying
I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting. Anthony Geary
children dad makeup
David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too. Anthony Edwards
children school typical
Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children. Anthony Daniels
children stupidity culture
Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture. Anthony de Mello
children sight special
You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a "thing"; he needs a special way of looking similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs .
children eye eyes-of-a-child
How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
children flower mean
If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
children powerful ambition
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion
children home interesting
I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky Annette Bening
children usa america
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet. Anne Stevenson
children clubs theater
The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters. Annette Funicello
children stills deep-inside
Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.
children television form
Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.
children
When you have children, you're obligated to live. Anne Tyler
children book writing
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
children secret suffering
There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose. Anna Katharine Green
children boys two
The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went. Anna Lee
children looks want
Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection. Anna Magnani
children want my-own
I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt. Anna Kournikova
children eye red
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? Anna Letitia Barbauld
children use example
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.
children school discipline
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison. Angela Davis
children hands germany
We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change. Angela Merkel
children eye light
Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes...reach the light of day? Amy Goodman
children people my-children
I love being with my children. They're fascinating people. Amy Grant
children hard-work parent
Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves. Amy Chua
children ideas parent
All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.