Quotes about children
children book goes-on
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. Beverly Cleary
children thinking careers
I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both. Betty White
children drama destiny
The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better. Beyonce Knowles
children destiny clothing-line
My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line.
children destiny sick
I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.
children motherhood four
When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.
children destiny lists
Destiny's Child will always be No.1 on my list.
children destiny high-heels
As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny's Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn't walk in them. We couldn't keep our knees straight, but we learned.
children sadness choices
Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness. Bernardo Bertolucci
children heart hands
Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him.
children thinking answers
I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers. Bernhard Schlink
children parent done
...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.
children clever teenager
I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was worth. But there was so much energy in me, such belief that one day I'd be handsome and clever and superior and admired, such anticipation when I met new people and new situations. Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill? Sometimes I see the same eagerness and belief in the faces of children and teenagers and the sight brings back the same sadness I feel in remembering myself.
children philosophy forgotten
Philosophy has forgotten about children
children believe order
When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em. Bernie Mac
children thinking trying
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either. Edward Gorey
children suicidal would-be
It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live. Edward Hoagland
children grief sometimes
And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder. Edward Hirsch
children judging guilt
A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed. Edward Gibbon
children men firsts
[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.
children class ordinary
Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings. Edmond de Goncourt
children book vocabulary
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else. Edith Schaeffer
children compassion giving
Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.
children poetry would-be
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. Edith Sitwell
children artist world
The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.
children thinking two
I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other. Edith Wharton
children priorities firsts
The welfare of our children is our main concern and their best interests are our first priority Eddie Murphy
children book kids
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia. Ed Bradley
children kids successful
It's something I passed on to my kids. They really love the earth because they've experienced it from the youngest age. They know where food comes from - it doesn't come from the Safeway bush or the Ralph's tree. It comes from the earth. And water and sunshine and nutrients. My children understand that because they've experienced it. I feel successful as a parent, having done that. Ed Begley, Jr.
children believe school
We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal education opportunities? We believe that it does. Earl Warren
children way found
Even as a child, I found a way to survive. Eartha Kitt
children son cotton
I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.
children believe world
I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.