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Children Quotes (page 69)

Plato quote: "Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. Plato
As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children. Sidney Poitier
Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes: At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle. The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle. And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle, And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful if you're single. Helen Fielding
kneel down, kneel down- kneel round her every one of you, and mark my words. I say she starved to death. I never knew how bad she was, till the fever came upon her, and then her bones were starting through the skin. There was neither fire nor candle; she died in the dark- in the dark. She couldn't even see her children's faces, though we heard her gasping out their names. I begged for her in the streets, and they sent me to prison. When I came back, she was dying; and all the blood in my... Charles Dickens
I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it. Richard Adams
George R. R. Martin quote: "They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of..."
They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light. George R. R. Martin
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down. John Steinbeck
Joss Whedon quote: "Love is for children. I owe him a debt."
Love is for children. I owe him a debt. Joss Whedon
It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens, as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Stephen Colbert quote: "In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we..."
In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards. Stephen Colbert
In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own. Hayao Miyazaki
Albert Einstein quote: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy..."
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales... Albert Einstein
Why are men afraid of women?"If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear," Ged said."Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves."Are they ever taught to trust themselves?" Ged asked, and as he spoke Therru came in on her work again. His eyes and Tenar's met."No," she said. "Trust is not what we're taught." She watched the child stack the wood in the box. "If power were trust," she said. "I like that word. If it weren't all these arrangements... Ursula K. Le Guin
She’s happier than Nicola. That’s probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn’t know. Roddy Doyle
J. M. Barrie quote: "escorting the children to school"
escorting the children to school J. M. Barrie

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