Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

Lorraine Hansberry

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• Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Charity

• I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Winners

• Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Children
  • Society
  • Education

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Children
  • Done
  • Worry

• It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • People
  • Children
  • Myself

• I like children - fried.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Like

• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  

  Wendy Craig
  • Children
  • Seven
  • Classroom

• Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Children
  • Want
  • Model

• My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Children
  • School
  • Safety

• Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Art
  • Know
  • Respect

• If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents

• I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Children
  • Church
  • Christmas

• I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • Me
  • Inspire

• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Love
  • Imagination

• I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Family

• Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Children
  • Future
  • Past

• Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

  

  Andrew Coyle Bradley
  • Children
  • Job
  • Death

• I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

  

  Chris Riddell
  • Children
  • Stop
  • Drawing

• Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Giving

• Or as an ook comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • She

• Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • Children