Quotes about children
children school learning
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Chuck Grassley
children men firsts
Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the first word he speaks. It is a cheap word because it requires no explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for intelligence who know only this word and have used it in place of thought on every occasion. Chuck Jones
children book tests
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
children thinking people
Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not- even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian- it's only a matter of time. Chuck Klosterman
children rocks grandfather
Rock is my child and my grandfather. Chuck Berry
children kids parenting
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker. Christy Turlington
children people
I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
children parent important
Parents should be the most important examples for their children.
children should-have special
Every child should have a chance to feel special. Chuck Close
children actors performers
I was never a child actor. I was a child performer. Christopher Walken
children home years
My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.
children responsibility honor
To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being. - Arya Christopher Paolini
children father mean
I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.
children war teenager
In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers. Christopher McDougall
children kids wings
Every child has his own beauty, her own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him. Christopher Myers
children years childhood
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. Christopher Morley
children hero angel
The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [...] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies. Christopher Moore
children laughing judging
Marry for love, stay married, and raise happy children who are quick to laugh and slow to judge.
children people teeth
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.
children moving barns
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. Anouk Aimee
children house ruins
As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them. Anselm Kiefer
children legacy splendid
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price. Ansel Adams
children men giving
Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?" Saetan had replied: "Hope you're obliging enough to answer it for me. However, if you're backed into a corner, refer her to me. I've become accustomed to being shocked. Anne Bishop
children heart blow
The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die. Anne Bronte
children two long
I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly. Angie Harmon
children thinking years
At the end of the day I'm gonna be dead one day, and what people say about me is going what I accomplished and what I did in my life and how my children are. And I don't think it's gonna be what was printed in the tabloids this year. Angelina Jolie
children kids dark
I think all kids are curious. They're drawn to the bad guy and they're drawn to things that are dark. It's not just simply a desire to be wicked. I think there are things that frighten us in life and, especially children, they want to understand and take it on or understand it so it frightens them less.
children loss nightmare
The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.
children simple thinking
I think what children can handle and what they're interested in is much deeper than people assume. It's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.
children able return
I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
children school kids
I met this amazing person, and we realized we had very similar views on how we wanted to live our lives. It's happened quickly, with so many children. Yesterday, picking up the kids from school, Brad turned around in the car, and there were three of them. He couldn't stop laughing. We love them and are having a great time.
children parent age
You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.
children life-lesson lessons
Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.