Quotes about children
children childhood coins
Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child. Anthony Horowitz
children loner isolated
I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone. Anthony Hopkins
children school elephants
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
children kids men
Most of my last 30 years have been like that. Results and manifestations of things I'd dreamed of as a young kid and wanted as a child and as a young man. I realized it maybe 30 years ago. I thought, "This is unreal. This has happened as I expected it to, as I'd pictured it." My whole life has been like that and I'm fascinated by that power that we all have. That we create our lives as we go.
children loss desire
Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child. Alicia Vikander
children father way
I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture. Alison Bechdel
children medicine hiv
I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India. Alicia Keys
children kids cooking
It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it. Alice Waters
children patriotic school
I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
children school garden
Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.
children believe school
I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair. It's unfair to charge for food in schools, especially to charge for food that is making children sick.
children new-relationship agriculture
We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
children real school
I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.
children real thinking
I think Americas food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, its very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.
children believe land
I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.
children community privilege
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
children two clarity
He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be. Alice Sebold
children animal thinking
What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child
children two three
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
children father lovely-bones
There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.
children worry age
I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready. Alice Walker
children book writing
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
children real thinking
I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.
children dangerous grown-children
A grown child is a dangerous thing.
children writing criticism
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
children believe teaching
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
children animal adults
human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.
children animal color
HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.
children grandparent people
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
children humanity care
I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
children people genius
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.
children years tragedy
She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled. Abraham Verghese
children father character
Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty. Abraham Lincoln