Quotes About Children

The children are waiting for us," she said. Those were her words, but what she really said was that I must live and begin now to live. Death must not interrupt life. There were others waiting for us.

Families are only a means of exploitation,' he declared. 'Parents treat children as capital assests and children wait for parents to die so that they will have an unearned income.' 'So children spy on fathers,' Mercy put in, 'and sons are sent far from their parents--' 'That the young may not inherit the prejudices of the old.

women are so strange and their tempers are uncertain, and mothers are the strangest of all, for they see fears and harms about their children where there are no such things.

She knew that men cannot work as women do, but have the hearts of children always in them

Children do divide a woman, in an odd sort of way.

at best, young children who are drilled on letters and numbers show no later advantage compared with those in play-based programs. In some cases, by high school their outcomes are worse. That inappropriately early pressure seems to destroy the interest and joy in learning that would naturally develop a few years later.

There is, it's worth noting, no "Mom-with-three-ungrateful-children Barbie.

Children as young as twelve to eighteen months can recognize brands, it went on, and are "strongly influenced" by advertising and marketing. Yikes!

Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer sat on him to force him to submit to their wishes.

Children key off their parents' reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.