C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.”
“Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.”
Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.”
“Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.”
Source: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
“Children aren't responsible for their parents' happiness, but they still try.”
Source: My Friends
“Children aren't born with the techniques of democratic problem solving, but they are born with one of its key components - the desire to speak out...and that's where the struggle for democracy begins.”
“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set
“Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.”
“Children aren't fooled. They know we give time to the things we love.”
“Children aren't just our future. They're our present.”
“Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.”
Source: Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
“Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" "Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Children ask if fairy tales are real! Yes, they are real! Wander through the illuminated streets of a beautiful city on a rainy night and you will see that fairy tales come true!”
“Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.”
“Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Children be comforted, I am well.”
“Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.”
“Children become like the things they love.”
Source: The Absorbent Mind
“Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.”
“Children become serious when they play. To regain that beautiful seriousness, you have to live in the present and take life as a play.”
“Children become what they are told they are.”
“Children began by loving their parents; as they grew older, they either became them or abandoned them. Sometimes, they forgave them.”
Source: The Light that Binds Us
“Children begin becoming aware of their sexuality at a very young age.”
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
“Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.”
“Children believe what you promise. They are excited and expectant. Your nature must be like theirs: bold, daring, unafraid and eager to experience the victory God has already assured.”
Source: Pour the Oil
“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”
“Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.”
“Children blessings seem, but torments are.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Otway
“Children born in wars
are made of a different kind of clay.
We become used to the din.
We grow used to the collapse
of crumbling buildings
and fire and develop a compassion
for broken things.
How can we not when we know
nothing else?”
Source: Hekate - The Witch
“Children born into the world are gifts to humanity.”
“Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire.”
Source: Complete Poems
“Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.”
“Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.”
“Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.”
“Children, bound by parental rules, are really free only in one aspect—emotionally. For a while, at least, they can cry or laugh or have tantrums unselfconsciously; they can have big dreams and unedited desires. Like many people my age, I don't feel free because I've lost touch with that emotional freedom.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“Children bring their own love with them when they come.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
“Children brought up in the company of adults learn better than most the power of solitude.”
Source: The Birth of Venus
“Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
“Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.”
Source: Disruptive Innovation: The Christensen Collection (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, The Innovator's DNA, and Harvard Business Review article
“Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.”
“Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.”
Source: Bad Science
“Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.”
“Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.”
Source: Into the Wild
“Children can be murderers... Little boys can be monsters”
Source: The Poppy War
“Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn.”
“Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.”
Source: EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature
“Children can be told anything—anything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be concealed from children on the pretext that they are little and that it is too early for them to understand. What a miserable and unfortunate idea! And how readily the children detect that their fathers consider them too little to understand anything, though they understand everything. Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
Source: The Idiot
“Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.”
“Children can change the world.”