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Quotes About Children

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.
~ Gwen Stefani
When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.
~ Gwen Stefani
Another survey revealed that while nine out of ten primary school children could identify a Dalek, only a third could recognise and name a magpie.
~ Gyles Brandreth
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
~ H Hahn Blavatsky
Tranquilos, niños.
~ Hector Tobar
Set aside your dreams for your children and help them attain their own dreams.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
~ H. L. Mencken
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
~ H. L. Mencken
Many relay stations meant many chances for error. Children everywhere know this, from playing the messaging game known in Britain as Chinese Whispers, in China as , in Turkey as From Ear to Ear, and in the modern United States simply as Telephone. When
~ James Gleick
I have children of my own." And then he spoke the words that have become engraven on my heart. "You need nerves of steel to be a parent.
~ James Herriot
I thought I heard you—one of you—saying it was a pity—umph—a pity I never had—any children … eh? … But I have, you know … I have …" The others smiled without answering, and after a pause Chips began a faint and palpitating chuckle. "Yes—umph—I have," he added, with quavering merriment. "Thousands of 'em … thousands of 'em… and all boys.
~ James Hilton
I thought I heard you—one of you—saying it was a pity —umph—a pity I never had—any children... eh?... But I have, you know... I have... The others smiled without answering, and after a pause Chips began a faint and palpitating chuckle. Yes—umph—I have, he added, with quavering merriment. Thousands of 'em... thousands of 'em... and all boys.
~ James Hilton
Plant the seeds of hope so they can grow. Everything seems pretty messed up. Be patient with yourself." "Let this time in your life, help heal one another. We can change social conditions to create environments in which children and adults can feel safe. Be a voice of compassion.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Thankful. Children are learning how to express themselves by watching their friends and adults interact...smiles, discomfort etc. Masks definitely create a world of faceless drones. Expressions are part of our individuality and trademark of our character, our inner light, and beauty. It would be an awful world without smiles, kindness, and compassion.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Children see magic, because they believe in real heroes that would save you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Children see magic, because they believe in real heroes that would save them.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Love is a necessity. It gives us the desire to bond with someone long enough to care for our children to an age where they can fend for themselves.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.
~ James Howe
In the wide land under a tender lucid evening sky, a cloud drifting westward amid a pale green sea of heaven, they stood together, children that had erred.
~ James Joyce
The music passed in an instant, as the first bars of sudden music always did, over the fantastic fabrics of his mind, dissolving them painlessly and noiselessly as a sudden wave dissolves the sandbuilt turrets of children.
~ James Joyce
The glow of a late autumn sunset covered the grass plots and walks. It cast a shower of kindly golden dust on the untidy nurses and decrepit old men who drowsed on the benches; it flickered upon all the moving figures - on the children who ran screaming along the gravel paths and on everyone who passed through the gardens.
~ James Joyce
Her shapely fingernails reddened by the blood of squashed lice from the children's shirts.
~ James Joyce
Madem ki bu dünyan?n çocuklar? kendi kuÅŸaklar? içinde ?????n çocuklar?ndan daha ak?ll?d?r. Öyleyse adaletsizliÄŸi ve tamahkarl??? dost edinin ki öldüÄŸünüz zaman sizi ebedi mekanlar?na kabul etsinler.
~ James Joyce
Both Davis and Lincoln loved books and reading. Both had children who died young. One of Davis's sons, Samuel, died when he was still a baby, and another, Joseph, died after an accident while Davis was the president of the Confederacy. Lincoln, too, lost one son, Eddie, at a very young age and another, Willie, his favorite, while he was president of the United States.
~ James L. Swanson