Quotes of: Children Keyword

There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city," [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an exciting prospect, she said - a network of natural libraries for teaching children about the region’s rare and fragile ecosyste...

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Every major movement in world history has recognized the strategic importance of mobilizing children. The Nazis had their Hitler Youth bands. The Chinese Communists had their Red Guards. The Taliban in Afghanistan had their madrash schools to instill...

Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imaginati...

The World According to Garp

...that the decline in reading among children was largely the fault of their parents. Parents these days don't read books, themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren't readers, however, they have no idea what to g...

Keigo Higashino

Surely our people do not understand even yet the rich heritage that is theirs. There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, t...

Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw ...

Catherine the Great

Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big sm...

Dalai Lama XIV

As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring childre...

Anne Lamott

Whoever is ashamed to sleep with his wife will never have children.

Egyptian

He that hath no children doth bring them up well.

English

A silly daughter teaches her mother how to bear children.

Ethiopian

Hold your children with your heart but teach them with your hands.

Russian

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

The Children of the Sky

But real life is not art.

The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

Jock Sturges

I talk to children like adults and to adults like children.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

You can only be twice someone’s age once.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

A belief is an uneducated guess.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups