Quotes on Children

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.

We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better than anyone else could, and we are talking of people who as children had the greatest difficulties and caused untold worries to their care-givers.

Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

My parents, despite their serious attitude toward life in general, and that of their children in particular, were very broadminded people. There was no such thing as a bad profession for them. As I was their daughter, they knew that, whatever profession I chose, I would do it well. That was enough for them. There was always trust among the Kellys.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.

I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. It is an approach that works the other way too: sometimes the footage has amazing qualities that you did not expect.