Quotes of: Children Keyword

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

A. S. Byatt

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and ...

Thomas Stephen Szasz

"What is marriage, mother?" "Child, it is spinning, having children, making money, and weeping.

Portuguese

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

C.S. Lewis

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

Alice Walker

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.

Quentin Blake

Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh, that's it. All I have to do is fall in love.' You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Chil...

Brooke Shields

I really try to focus on organizations, twofold, one that help people and/or beings that don't have other means of help. Particularly if they're hospitalized children, sick children, children that don't have homes, children that can't go to school, y...

Ryan Kavanaugh

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.

Antonio Porchia

A brick could be used to make the world safer for our children. Well, not our children, as I don't actually have any kids—but certainly your children. Skeptical? A brick could better protect your children than all the Federal government agencies co...

Brick

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

Salman Khan

We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying...

The Magnificent Defeat

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

Elle Macpherson

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

Rebecca Miller

Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to...

Michael Gurian

When a rich man wants children, he gets dollars, when a poor man wants dollars, he gets children.

Arabian

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

G.K. Chesterton

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

Donna Tartt

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

Ziggy Marley

There is a belief advanced today, and in some cases by conservative black authors, that poor children and particularly black children should not be allowed to hear too much about these matters. If they learn how much less they are getting than rich c...

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools