Top children Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of Donald Miller
What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.
- Donald Miller
Collection: Children
Image of Katherine Hannigan
...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said.
- Katherine Hannigan
Collection: Children
Image of Laura Moriarty
Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.
- Laura Moriarty
Collection: Children
Image of Daniel Quinn
If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"
- Daniel Quinn
Collection: Children
Image of Daniel Quinn
The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest.
- Daniel Quinn
Collection: Children
Image of Henry Williamson
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.
- Henry Williamson
Collection: Children
Image of Mary Jo Putney
What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
- Mary Jo Putney
Collection: Children
Image of Dallin H. Oaks
The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.
- Dallin H. Oaks
Collection: Children
Image of Paul Harding
I was ravenous for my child and took to gorging myself in the boneyard, hoping that she might possibly meet me halfway, or just beyond, one night, if only for an instant—step back into her own bare feet, onto the wet grass or fallen leaves or snowy ground of the living Enon, so that we could share just one last human word.
- Paul Harding
Collection: Children
Image of Mem Fox
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.
- Mem Fox
Collection: Children
Image of Mem Fox
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.
- Mem Fox
Collection: Children
Image of Mem Fox
When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
- Mem Fox
Collection: Children
Image of Mem Fox
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
- Mem Fox
Collection: Children
Image of Mem Fox
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.
- Mem Fox
Collection: Children
Image of Mem Fox
The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.
- Mem Fox
Collection: Children
Image of Mem Fox
DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.
- Mem Fox
Collection: Children
Image of Samuel Rutherford
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.
- Samuel Rutherford
Collection: Children
Image of Richard Carlson
Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.
- Richard Carlson
Collection: Children
Image of Richard Carlson
Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.
- Richard Carlson
Collection: Children
Image of Randall Terry
What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?
- Randall Terry
Collection: Children
Image of Alice Bailey
We are all the children of God
- Alice Bailey
Collection: Children
Image of Joel Salatin
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
- Joel Salatin
Collection: Children
Image of Peggy Noonan
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
- Peggy Noonan
Collection: Children
Image of Peggy Noonan
The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is a huge break with the past, with assumptions and traditions that shaped us.
- Peggy Noonan
Collection: Children
Image of Katrina Kenison
We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.
- Katrina Kenison
Collection: Children
Image of Katrina Kenison
I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks.
- Katrina Kenison
Collection: Children
Image of Katrina Kenison
I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.
- Katrina Kenison
Collection: Children
Image of Katrina Kenison
we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another....we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.
- Katrina Kenison
Collection: Children
Image of Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.
- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Collection: Children
Image of Francois Rabelais
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
- Francois Rabelais
Collection: Children
Image of Sydney Pollack
I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.
- Sydney Pollack
Collection: Children
Image of Susanna Kaysen
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.
- Susanna Kaysen
Collection: Children
Image of Jessica Fellowes
Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary
- Jessica Fellowes
Collection: Children
Image of J. C. Watts
You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.
- J. C. Watts
Collection: Children
Image of J. C. Watts
We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them how to read and write, do arithmetic and gain the computer skills necessary to allow them to compete in the global marketplace. If we can get that through the public schools, fine. If we can't, I'm all for parental choice in education to allow that parent to take his/her/their child to a school that is safe and teaches them, even if it is a faith-based school!
- J. C. Watts
Collection: Children
Image of George S. Clason
Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.
- George S. Clason
Collection: Children
Image of Christopher Golden
Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo
- Christopher Golden
Collection: Children
Image of Thornton Wilder
Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.
- Thornton Wilder
Collection: Children
Image of Jill Bolte Taylor
Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.
- Jill Bolte Taylor
Collection: Children
Image of David Schwimmer
I think a huge amount of it is because of the Internet. Every single thing in the world is accessible with a few clicks. Almost every child, by the age of 13, has seen pornography. That's clearly different. It used to be really hard or really humiliating, as a 13-year-old, to access pornography. If you wanted to take a look at a Playboy, it was really challenging. Today, it's a joke.
- David Schwimmer
Collection: Children
Image of Max Born
We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.
- Max Born
Collection: Children
Image of Marion Zimmer Bradley
Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Collection: Children
Image of Marion Zimmer Bradley
A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Collection: Children
Image of Henry Kirke White
We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.
- Henry Kirke White
Collection: Children
Image of Ted Chiang
Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they're not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.
- Ted Chiang
Collection: Children
Image of Olive Schreiner
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.
- Olive Schreiner
Collection: Children
Image of David Rakoff
In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight.
- David Rakoff
Collection: Children
Image of Kate Morton
... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
- Kate Morton
Collection: Children
Image of Kate Morton
It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part of one's heart to use and misuse as they please, a grandchild is different. Gone are the bonds of guilt and responsibility that burden the maternal relationship. The way to love is free.
- Kate Morton
Collection: Children