Children Quotes
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Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
William John Evans -
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I had a girlfriend (Marita Isaksen) when Europe had the international breakthrough and if there is something I regret, it's not being fair with her and playing it straight. There were a lot of girls on the side. Finally we went separate ways, but we found each other again, and today we have three children.
Ian Haugland Europe -
Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback -
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken -
Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
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Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
Joe Baca -
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
Karl Barth -
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky -
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi -
People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.
Donatella Versace -
A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.
Joel Robuchon
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Karl Kraus -
Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in 'The Longevity Project' focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.
Katie Hafner -
I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend's children, but I don't think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don't have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.
Shakira -
Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
Sam Childers -
When you have children love is always there in the best form.
Rachel Roy -
I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
Lars von Trier
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Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.
Gavin Newsom -
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.
Jim Knight -
Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
F. Scott Fitzgerald