C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children are certainly too good to be true.”
Source: The Collected Letters (Annotated Edition)
“Children are children.”
“Children are closer to God than you know. They are born as the embodiment of radiant Divine Love. When you hold a baby, it is so apparent. They evoke tenderness, love, and openness. That is God loving you through that baby! Such a blessing!”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Children are closest to God. They reveal creation. They are the embodiment of Love and Connection.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment thats 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.”
“Children are compassionate by nature. Engaging their compassion with communication and connection instead of igniting their self-preservation with threats and punishments is not only more effecting in guiding their behavior, it's also more effective in growing their humanity.”
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”
Source: The Interpretation of Dreams
“Children are constantly focused on their parents and will mirror them. Therefore, what they experience in the home will be crucial for their empathy development.
Parents have a big responsibility because they are the primary example of empathy and must practice being empathic themselves.”
Source: The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
“Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.”
“Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.”
Source: Creating Love: A New Way of Understanding Our Most Important Relationships
“Children are deeply affected by the world they are born into, even before birth itself.”
“Children are different - mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.”
“Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”
“Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.”
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
Source: Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis
“Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.”
“Children are excellent judges of character, you know”
Source: Moth Smoke
“Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves”
“Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.”
“Children are f - king crazy. They're also suicidal.”
“Children are for people who can't have dogs.”
“Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.”
“Children are full of courage.”
“Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.”
“Children are geniuses.”
“Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.”
“Children are gifted healers.
Without them, we would be broken.
Keep them alive within yourselves and you will see that the world is a better place.”
Source: Wanted Back-Bencher and Last-Ranker Teacher
“Children are gifts from God.”
“Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.”
Source: My Life and Music
“Children are gleeful barbarians.”
“Children are God's gift.”
“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.”
“Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.”
“Children are good at understanding grown-ups, but grown-ups are rarely able to understand children, which is odd because they have already been children and ought to remember what it’s like.”
Source: The Little Snake
“Children are good learners. The first learn to act what they hear and see.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.”
“Children are great observers.”
“Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.”
“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage
“Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.”
Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage
“Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things.”
“Children are harmed more by our apathy than our error.”
“Children are held in chain in a wicked world.”
“Children are held in chains in a wicked world.”
“Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.”
“Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.”
Source: The Montessori Reader
“Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.”
Source: Table-talk
“Children are imprinted with the lessons of life from their earliest years. They learn from their parents how to give and receive love. It is the necessary lesson which they must learn if they are to do more than exist in an emotional vacuum inhabited only by themselves.”
Source: Crescendo