Quotes about children
children growing-up years
If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now. Andrew Solomon
children giving autism
Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.
children exercise imagination
Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
children exercise imagination
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
children self parent
All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.
children angel giving
If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.
children diapers way
There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me. Andrew Lincoln
children way realizing
Realizing that my children are the center of the universe and not me is probably one of the greatest ways to acclimatize.
children sorry thinking
Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here. Andrew Lloyd Webber
children enemy arguing
I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children. Andre Malraux
children character littles
One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them. Andre Maurois
children growing-up pain
I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you innocence, my child, my child. I pray you don't grow up too fast. Never know pain, my dear one, my dear one. Nor hunger nor fear nor sorrow. Never know war, my child, my child. Remember your hope for tomorrow. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
children ambitious amelie
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become. Amelie Nothomb
children teenager boys
As a child I was a good boy. Even if I wasn't playing tennis I don't think I'd have done things like smoking or getting drunk. I'm lucky I never liked the taste of alcohol - I know, I'm Scottish so what's wrong with me? - but I never even liked the smell of the stuff. It's the same with smoking, it never appealed to me. I guess I missed out on my Kevin-The-Teenager phase. Andy Murray
children giving advice
Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children. Andrew Davies
children maturity age
Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being. Ambrose Bierce
children age world
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries. Anthony Hecht
children parent masonic
Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
children strange should
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
children fetus alive
The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off. Anthony Kennedy
children believe school
Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child. Anthony Horowitz
children parent literature
It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.
children two problem
There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.
children childhood coins
Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.
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.