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Quotes About Children

Lorsque tu verras une bonne D'enfants, et non autre personne, Assise au milieu d'un tender Ou wagon de chemin de fer, Découvres-toi sur son passage, Salut à son noble visage ! Moralité A bonne en tender, salut. " (Fables de Joinville)
~ Allais a
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
~ Allan Bloom
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise----as priests, prophets or philosophers are wise. Specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
~ Allan Bloom
Modernity promised that all human beings would be treated equally. Women took that promise seriously and rebelled against the old order. Women, now liberated and with equal careers, nevertheless find they still desire to have children, but have no basis for claiming that men should assume a responsibility for them. So nature weighs more heavily on women. In the old order they were subordinated and dependent on men; in the new order they are isolated, needing men, but not able to count on them.
~ Allan David Bloom
The family spiritual void has left the field open to rock music. The result is nothing less than parents loss of control over their childrens moral education at a time when no one else is seriously concerned with it.
~ Allan David Bloom
He'd imagined a dark, grim mining village, full of slack faced children, the product of a long term inbreeding programme.
~ Allan Watson
Much of the increased prevalence of ADHD results from the "false positive" misidentification of kids who would be better off never receiving a diagnosis. Drug company marketing pressure often leads to unnecessary treatment with medications that can cause the harmful side effects of insomnia, loss of appetite, irritability, heart rhythm problems, and a variety of psychiatric symptoms.
~ Allen Frances
Clearly, Boundary Setting 101 is not typically a part of a child's education. If anything, most of us have been conditioned to not set boundaries as a way to avoid the negative reactions of others. The ability to set boundaries to take care of yourself begins with the belief that your "self" is worth caring for.
~ Allison Bottke
Yet we're so weary of living with the ongoing crisis that we return to the same behaviors and habits—and our adult children have us pegged.
~ Allison Bottke
Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.
~ Allison Pearson
The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.
~ Allison Pearson
One of the best things about having children is that it enables you to have the same loving memories as another person - you can summon the same past. Two flashbacks but with a single image.
~ Allison Pearson
You should always trust the instincts of children.
~ Ally Carter
The parade, the participation of children, the public mockery, the photographs - all of these were essential elements of prewar anti-Jewish actions. The public humiliation of Jews in German localities followed a script from 1933 through the deportations in 1941-1943. Germans knew this script and followed it as they deported the Jews.
~ Alon Confino
Children often overestimate their importance in the parent's life
~ Altaf Tyrewala
Faced with complicated choices like this, many parents understandably played it safe. About 80 percent of the children were assigned to the school that their parents had listed first. On paper, the system looked hugely successful, with most participants appearing to have received their first choices. But the reality was very different: many of those parents were simply getting safe, strategic choices.
~ Alvin E. Roth
Él soltó una carcajada y, en ella, escuché el sonido de la dicha. Escuché pies bailando, el susurro de faldas en movimiento, la risa de los niños. ¿Fue ésta la primera señal del amor? En la persona a la que estás destinada a amar escuchas el sonido de los que aún no han nacido.
~ Alyson Richman
He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children. Is that the first sign of love? You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.
~ Alyson Richman
Inside, I had a pit in my stomach. What had the world become that children were now discussing their own death, as though it were a menu option? As I looked around and saw the blank faces clustered amongst us, I realized that our emotions might be the first thing we are forced to abandon in war. That the numbness that engulfed our senses was the only way we could sustain ourselves against all the chaos.
~ Alyson Richman
odiosos. Tengo una amiga que se ha casado con un japonés. Tiene dos hijos, seis y cuatro años. Llaman a su madre pipí y a su padre caca.  Me reí.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Je ne pense pas avoir d'enfants. – Ah. Pourquoi? Ce n'est pas normal. Je m'en allai en fredonnant dans ma tête la chanson de Brassens : « Non, les brav's gens n'aiment pas que / L'on suive une autre route qu'eux. »
~ Amelie Nothomb
MY WISH I wish I could have a woman like you To be my better half The mother of my children I wish I could have a woman like you To be the organizer of my home and The selector of my costume I wish I could have a woman like you To love her And be loved by her I wish I could have a woman like you To love my children And be loved by me children I wish I could have a woman like you Whom, I can walk with in public places And feel proud
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Massive debts owed to foreign creditors weaken our global influence and threaten high inflation and steep tax increases for our children and grandchildren.
~ Evan Bayh
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
~ Sadie Frost