Quotes about children
children thinking done
Rather than go from one life to another, I think I live a lot of lives at the same time. I've done that ever since I was a child. It seemed that I was inhabited by some B movie. Anjelica Huston
children fall voice
Have you ever watched a child learning to walk? Before this week, I never had, but there's a certain grace to it. Well, if not grace, then tenacity. Fall down nine times--get up ten. And the tenth time you get where you're going, you don't stop, not for obstacles, not for other people telling you to stop. You don't listen to anything but that inner voice until you arrive where you want to be. Ann Aguirre
children empathy pity
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs Anita Roddick
children relax way
The only way I could relax was when I was with my children. Andrew Wiles
children enemy
Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society. Andrew Vachss
children doe politician
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist. Andrew Vachss
children kids home
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. Andrew Vachss
children love-is emotion
Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior. Andrew Vachss
children loneliness frail
Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time. Andrew Wyeth
children frustration trying
Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations. Andrew Young
children taken ideas
Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth. Andrew Young
children crime reason
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime. Andrew Young
children heart voice
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts. Andrew Young
children emotional thinking
The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being. Andrew Weil
children cheese-sandwiches people
Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes. Andrew Weil
children self america
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me. Anchee Min
children laughing bird
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death. Chuck Palahniuk
children war cancer
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around. Chuck Palahniuk
children war cutting
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant. Chuck Palahniuk
children lying exercise
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy. Chuck Palahniuk
children mistake smart
No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life. Chuck Palahniuk
children nice book
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction. Chuck Palahniuk
children childhood teeth
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency. Chuck Palahniuk
children loving-life people
Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life. Chuck Palahniuk
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. Chuck Palahniuk
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. Chuck Palahniuk
children father character
As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author. Chuck Palahniuk
children child-of-god lunatic
I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God. Chuck Palahniuk
children people enthusiasm
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. Chuck Palahniuk
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. Chuck Palahniuk
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. Chuck Palahniuk
children dying
You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics. Chuck Palahniuk