C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children are paparazzi. They take your picture with their minds when you don't want them to see you at your worst. Trust me, they SEE and HEAR everything.”
“Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.”
“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.”
Source: Walt Disney: Conversations
“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”
Source: Walt Disney: Conversations
“Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.”
Source: Philosophy of right
“Children are precious. When you love them, don't love them as if their love lacks.
Love them as if their love is already
full.
When you teach them, don't teach them as if ignorance defines them. Teach them as if
their soul is already full.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in order to discuss them. The Mole effect is to substitute slogans and superficial opinion for considered individual thought. And the opinion is that of the lowest common denominator of the group.”
“Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Children are really the ancients among us. It is we, the older people, who bear the stamp of temporariness, the impress of a brief, particular period: we, with our clothes of a particular fashion, our manners dictated by the conventions of our generation, our heads packed full of the prejudices, called information, peculiar to the particular time at which we were educated.”
Source: Ringstones and Other Curious Tales
“Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at an early age.”
“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1930-1935
“Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits.”
“Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.”
Source: The Game of Life and How to Play It
“Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.”
“children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.”
“Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.”
Source: Simulacra and Simulation
“Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.”
“Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.”
“Children are so precious.”
“Children are so remarkable because they are the humans in whom the unconscious and conscious minds are so closely intertwined. For several years, the unconscious mind is dominant in children and then gradually consciousness rises up in power and finally takes over. The child’s mind is an incredible laboratory for the study of the science of consciousness. Uniquely, with children, the rise of consciousness can be tracked, and the gradual subordination of the unconscious to consciousness followed. With this priceless knowledge, we can work out how to achieve the holy grail: to be able to use consciousness and be adults, while also retaining or recovering the paranormal powers of the unconscious. To be conscious humans able to routinely exercise paranormal powers would put us on the path to divinity.”
Source: Children See Dead People: Children's Spooky Powers
“Children are starving for story, the kind that builds on hope, the kind that echos for a lifetime. We need story in our lives, not dreams based on greed.”
Source: The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
“Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Children are supposed to be free spirits and dream chasers, thinking of limitless opportunities. They are supposed to be filled with light that shines with happiness and joy that shouldn’t be dimmed or filled with darkness and fear.”
“Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.”
“Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.”
“Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. Her visits to her foster-child are discouraged by a cold reception. After a few years the child never sees her again. The mother expects to take her place, and to repair by her cruelty the results of her own neglect. But she is greatly mistaken; she is making an ungrateful foster-child, not an affectionate son; she is teaching him ingratitude, and she is preparing him to despise at a later day the mother who bore him, as he now despises his nurse.”
“Children are tender plants, rooted in the soil of their families. If they are only given pampering, like constant water and rich humus, they may grow wild and tangled with weeds. Schools, like gardeners, carefully prune and shape them, guiding their growth. In stony soil—strict or broken family—their growth may be stunted, but schools provide a fence of protection, nurturing them with love and compassion.”
“Children are the anchors of a mother's life.”
“Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life.”
Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.”
“Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.”
“Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.”
Source: The Onion Girl
“Children are the builders of the future!”
“Children are the citizens of tomorrow.”
“Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.”
“Children are THE future, they’re not your future. It’s an important distinction”
Source: Do What Matters: The Purpose Driven Career Transition Guide: Infusing the principles of sustainability and purpose into any career and transition.
“Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.”
“Children are the greatest blessing from God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.”
Source: My Beliefs
“Children are the keys of paradise.”
“Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.”
“Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.”
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.”
Source: The Disappearance of Childhood
“Children are the most amazing thing in the universe, as far as I'm concerned. If you're worrying about how it's going to turn out, you aren't experiencing that day-to-day satisfaction of being with these incredible, extraordinary creatures. Every single one of them is the most incredible, extraordinary creature that you're ever going to want to see. I think the joy of having that deep relationship - that's the core of what being a parent is.”
“Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Children are the most fearless souls on earth.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Children are the most honest critics. They will say "You're funny", but also "You're pathetic - go away."”
“Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents.”