Quotes about children
children eye wrinkles
Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill...a corrupter of youth no doubt... e. e. cummings
children father america
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
children kissing lovers
Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel
children simple men
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
children three
It takes three to make a child.
children thinking parent
Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will. E. B. White
children writing rope
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
children spring heart
Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.
children hard-times games
Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
children writing way
A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.
children writing games
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.
children pregnancy able
I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed. Dustin Hoffman
children atheism blame
Blame is for God and small children.
children believe people
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that. Duane G. Carey
children literature narnia
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century. Douglas Gresham
children want chance
If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
children believe facts
STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future. Douglas Coupland
children believe age
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all. Andrew O'Hagan
children father divorce
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere. Andre Dubus
children wife shadow
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. Andre Breton
children mind adults
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
children parent would-be
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence. Andre Gide
children young advise
I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.
children light justice
To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice. Ann Veneman
children impact poverty
Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.
children airplane talking
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up. Ann Richards
children cake life-is-like
I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
children fighting together
We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much. Ann Romney
children school home
Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.
children class people
In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world. Angela Ahrendts
children only-child my-family
I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music. Angel Olsen
children party moving
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine. Aneurin Bevan
children school lessons
Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps Anatoly Karpov