A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“All chatter is unnecessary. Nowadays everyone talks but what is needed is action. That is what God wants, not useless talking.”
Source: The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection
“All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.”
“All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.”
“All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.”
“All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.”
Source: The Art of Chess Combination
“All Chess players should have a hobby”
“All children accomplish milestones in their own way, in their own time.”
“All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.”
Source: Weekend: A Comedy in Two Acts
“All children are amazing artists. It’s the grown ups you have to worry about.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“All Children are Artists”
“All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.”
Source: System of Nature
“All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.”
“All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.”
“All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.”
“All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection”
Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
“All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet curiosity by giving the answers, rather than by some method that leads from narrower questions to broader questions. It is hard to satisfy the curiosity of a child, and even harder to satisfy the curiosity of a scientist, and methods that meet curiosity with satisfaction are thus not apt to foster the development of the child into the scientist. I don't advocate turning all children into professional scientists, although I think there would be advantages if all adults retained something of the questioning attitude, if their curiosity were less easily satisfied by dogma, of whatever variety.”
Source: The Nature of Natural History
“All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.”
“All children are demons," Evie said, breathing heavily. "This is precisely why I always refuse to babysit.”
Source: Lair of Dreams
“All children are essentially criminal.”
“All children are flotsam driven by the ebb and flow of adult lives.”
Source: The Power of One
“All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one.”
“All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. But, as in their reading and arithmetic and drawing, different children proceed at different speeds. (It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.) Some small ones are terrible and fey, Utterly Heartless. Some are dear and sweet and Hardly Heartless at all.”
“All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.”
Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
“All children are mirrors of death”
“All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.”
Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms
“All children are my children.”
“All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.”
“all children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or fiddles, and none of the games have good prizes.”
Source: The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
“All children are special and all children have needs”
“ALL children are spectacularly gifted and learning should be for everyone!”
Source: Knock Three Times
“All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.”
Source: Jean Anouilh
“all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.”
“All children can do things to help, whether how big or small - by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.”
“All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.”
Source: Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990
“All children grow up, all but one. His name is Peter and by now, all the civilized world has heard of him. He has captured the public imagination and become a legend, a subject for poets, philosophers and psychologists to write about, and for children to dream of. The children’s tales might be lacking in some details, but on the whole they are more accurate than most other accounts, for children will always understand Peter intuitively, as I did when I first met him.
"I shall endeavor to tell you the true story of my friend Peter, because he cannot tell it to you himself. Afterward I hope you will love him and defend him as I have for the remainder of your days. Pass on to others a true account of the wild boy who would not grow up, who danced with kings and won the hearts of princesses. He defied logic and reason, lived and loved with an innocent heart, and found peace in the midst of a turbulent world.”
Source: Peter: The Untold True Story
“All children grow up, or they die, or both. All children, except one.”
Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
“All Children Have Brain Damage!”
“All children have creative power.”
“All children have gifts, some open them at different times.”
“All children have rights and those rights must be protected.”
“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”
“All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to be rude. And I'm seeing some problems today where somebody's losing a job because they made fun of a fat lady that couldn't fit in the elevator. I mean that was the sort of thing that, when I was eight years old, my mother made it very clear to me that that was not okay to say that kind of stuff.”
“All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Children were allowed to go without chaperone in the afternoons. My sense of making fictional comedy undoubtedly first caught its spark from the antic pantomime of the silent screen, and from having a kindred soul to laugh with.”
Source: On Writing
“All children, including TCKs, face a myriad of developmental tasks as they grow from helpless infants into healthy adults. Among them is the need to develop a strong sense of personal identity as well as group identity, answering the questions Who am I? and Where do I belong? Traditionally, the family and community mirror back the answers and the child sees his or her image reflected in them.”
“All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.”
“All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.”
“All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?”
“All children should be encouraged to love and respect animals.. Not turn a blind eye to their suffering and stab forks into their dead bodies..”