C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children and fooles speake true.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (the Euphuist.): John Lilly and his works. Endimion. Campaspe. Sapho and Phao. Gallathea. Notes
“Children and fools always speak the truth”
Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories
“Children and fools cannot lie.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“Children and fools speak true.”
Source: Endymion
“Children and journalists need what they don't need actually.”
“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”
“Children, and most especially girls---
pretty ones, sheltered from the world---
should never talk to unknown men,
who likely want to gobble them,
For there are wolves with pelts of hair,
whose huge teeth serve to say beware,
but also wolves who seem quite sweet,
when wooing women in the street
with flattery and playful charm.
It's very hard to see the harm
till they devour you, blood and bone.
Perhaps you keep one in your home?
My moral is a warning too:
that smooth-tongued wolf will ruin you.”
Source: The Modern Fairies
“Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.”
“Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.”
“Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.”
Source: Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman
“Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.”
“Children and youth around the world have been assaulted by neoliberal forces hellbent on destroying the imaginations of young people and the democratic empowerment they were supposed to inherit.”
Source: Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People
“Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.”
“Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.”
Source: Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues
“Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.”
“Children are a gift from God.”
“Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.”
“Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.”
“Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late”
“Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12
“Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.”
“Children are a sacred gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Children are an heritage of the Lord (Ps. 127:3). The more I think about children, the more I worry about parents.”
“Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.”
Source: Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa
“Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!”
“Children are all foreigners.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842
“Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.”
Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
“Children are all unique, so when you're blending families it's really important to get to know each individual child... Being a stepparent can be a really incredible opportunity. Sometimes children pay attention and listen to someone who's not their blood parent. Sometimes I notice how my son Milo learns things from my best friends and people that have been around him, his grandparents and so on, in a way he can't from his own mum and dad. It takes a village!”
“Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.”
“Children are always listening, and they hear the stories you tell them about themselves.”
Source: The Quiet Current: Stories of Healing, Hope, and Unexpected Grace
“Children are always looking at the world as if it was for the first time in their lives. So, we should always look to the world with the eyes of a child. I am not saying be naive, I am saying be innocent in the sense of discovering things.”
“Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.”
“Children are amazing. Believe in yourself and stay strong. And remember that there are people out there who can help you when things get tough.”
“children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.”
Source: The Folks at Home
“Children are angels.”
“Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.”
“Children are attuned to their basic instincts. These were made to protect them in their infancy. Listen to your instincts.”
“Children are becoming disobedient why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.”
“Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.”
“Children are blessed with extremely low standards when it comes to what they regard as fun or funny.”
“Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we like, the tougher ones will fight back and end up spiteful and wild, while the less strong will lose that uniqueness they were born with.”
“Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.”
“Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy”
Source: Goose-quill Papers
“Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy.”
Source: A Torch Against the Night
“Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.”
“Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.”
“Children are born with varying levels of talent and intelligence, but possessing natural smarts and skills is no guarantee of success. It takes more than that: it takes work on the part of parents and teachers to cultivate these qualities, to instill in children the drive and character necessary to translate their natural gifts into extraordinary results.”
Source: Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
“Children are capable, of course, of literary belief, when the story-maker's art is good enough to produce it. That state of mind has been called 'willing suspension of disbelief'. But this does not seem to me a good description of what happens. What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside. If you are obliged, by kindliness or circumstance, to stay, then disbelief must be suspended (or stifled), otherwise listening and looking would become intolerable. But this suspension of disbelief is a substitute for the genuine thing, a subterfuge we use when condescending to games or make-believe, or when trying (more or less willingly) to find what virtue we can in the work of an art that has for us failed.”
Source: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
“Children are capable of such open rudeness.”
“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”
Source: The Thief Lord