C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person's character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and unsophisticated, they often know instinctively who can be trusted and who is the charlatan.”
Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing
“Children are inspiring because they are open and a lot more intelligent than grown ups. They also have contagious playfulness and joy. For me as an artist the challenge of having a child is having to think ahead a lot more. Which in a way is good, since I sometimes lack self-discipline.”
“Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.”
“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”
Source: The lollipop shoes
“Children are less easily frightened than we are.... they all understand princesses, of course. Haven't they all been badly bruised by peas?”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read.”
“Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.”
“Children are like a stream of water . They need a proper gutter to flow in order”
“Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.”
“Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.”
“Children are like cyclists. When you put oil in their chains; they can go around the world without even feeling thirsty.”
“Children are like dogs: they always find their own in crowds.”
Source: Min kamp 2
“Children are like fingers. No matter which finger you bite, it hurts.”
“Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.”
“Children are like little angels - there's no way you can't love them.”
“Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.”
“Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.”
“Children are like sponges, absorbing their parents' attitudes and behaviors towards money. It's crucial for parents to be mindful of their financial actions and lead by example.”
Source: Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money
“Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn.”
“Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.”
“Children are like that, Irene often thought, for every small dose of happiness they give us, we have to swallow all the bitterness in the world. Men are like that too. That's how the world is.”
Source: The Promise
“Children are like tiny flowers: They are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.”
“Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.”
Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
“Children are little angels”
“Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.”
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany
“Children are lovable and adorable.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see things by way of color. They're very child-like. That's the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality.”
“children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.”
Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents~~Emilie Buchwald”
“Children are manipulative little beasts.”
“Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.”
“Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.”
Source: The Tolkien Reader
“Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.”
“Children are mentoring their parents and older generations to actively begin to make major changes, in evidence of glaring environmental and social issues that previous generations have taken too long to address. They feel the urgency for change because they know the long-term consequences that affect their future. Be curious and listen to their passionate messages and educated calls-to-action. Let yourself be inspired to contribute to change as best you can.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.”
Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.”
“Children are more resilient than we think. Their bones are more flexible than adults' bones. Evolution did that to protect them from the blows they were going to receive.”
Source: Waking Lions
“Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.”
Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most
“Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.”
“Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends.”
“Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.”
“Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.”
“Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana
“Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.”
Source: Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child
“Children are naturally curious. This world is new to them. Encourage this trait as a way to develop a curious intellect. Do not be short with the child that asks questions. Use humor to end a line of questioning when a child turns into a prosecutor. Children are always surprised, and their minds lose focus when an adult drops to their level. Children will ask you many questions, progressing from what to how to why. As a child is continuously learning, you too will have to stay continuously learning.”
Source: Masculinity Amidst Madness
“Children are naturally drawn to self-sabotage.”
“Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit.
~Laura Hecox”
Source: Women of the Lights