- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children Quotes
Raising kids, and the duties that come with it.
Quotes about "children" here include a filmmaker recalling audience shock at a controversial early work, alongside pointed reminders that entertainment isn't a substitute for parenting at home. For prayer-focused content about children, see Prayers for children.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.
- Entire Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
These days it seems that every big, new, heavily promoted children's book is rather like the ghost of poor old Jacob Marley. Each one comes trailing a long, clanking chain of references - in the form of overexcited press releases and slightly hysterical jacket blurbs - to bestsellers of a supposedly similar nature.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.
- Childcare
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and are really fond of them. There are also times when children need to be left alone to learn to be independent and to encourage their imaginary friends.
- Discouraged
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.
- Defiance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an act of defiance which goes on where these humans and aliens save these children, and hence the name/term of 'Defiance.' Formerly, it was St. Louis. This frontier town springs up from it. And everybody tries to integrate, they try to re-invent themselves as well.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always sponsored children. At fifteen, I had sponsored two girls through Plan International.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plan International protects the rights of children and young women, and I'm an ambassador for the 'Because I Am a Girl' campaign.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020