C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Children can find it difficult to differentiate between fantasy and reality.”
“Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.”
Source: Lake Wobegon Days
“Children can have stubborn pain too.”
Source: Black Sunday
“Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.”
“Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.”
Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
“Children can still hear you even when they aren’t listening. (It’s their superpower.)”
Source: One Mom To Another: Be Kind to Yourself, Embrace the Good, Find Joy in the Everyday
“Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.”
“Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.”
“Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady.”
“Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.”
“Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.”
“Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.”
Source: Identity and the Life Cycle
“Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls.”
“Children cannot develop a sense of inner discipline if all of the control comes from the outside.”
“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
“Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.”
“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
Source: The Poppy War
“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight in a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
Source: The Poppy War
“Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later.”
“Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later. That group might not have the same chemistry. So I completely understand why they're rushing into it, because they probably feel like they have to.”
“Children close their eyes to advice but open their eyes to example.”
“Children come into the world with a lot of personality already imbedded in them.”
“Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.”
“Children come to us not... because we are good people, but because we are students of life.
And as students, at some point, an examination will come!! One that is karmic in nature, and one that's unforgettable.
There is neither failure nor success in raising a child.
What is gained is the realisation that you have fulfilled your karma. And hopefully, in the best interests of both you and the child.”
“Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.”
“Children conceived by this woman would only be cannibalized by her womb.”
“Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.”
“Children convert you because, against your will, they slay the dragon of selfishness. They get you out of almost all the bad moods you'd like to indulge in, and they bring out into the open very clearly all the elements that need healing in you. That's why I tell all my friends to have them -- children, that is -- or at least not to close themselves to the possibility of welcoming them.”
Source: Sposala e muori per lei. Uomini veri per donne senza paura
“Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your child to be honest, peaceful and happy you should be that way first.”
“Children crave order, affection, and affirmation.”
Source: Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Chronic Stress, and Find Your Freedom
“Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away--each a small separation, a small distancing.”
“Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.”
Source: A story garden for little children
“Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.”
“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.”
“Children deserve respect more, not less than adults, because they innocently make mistakes.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Children deserve to be reared in a home with a father and a mother.”
“Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad.”
Source: The Language of Love
“Children develop character by what they see, by what they hear, and by what they are repeatedly led to do.”
“Children develop dysfunction when their development is disrupted.”
“Children die every day because millions of us tell ourselves that caring is just as good as doing.”
“Children discover and verify their theories in quite the same way that scientists do: through experimentation. They manipulate the world and discover regularities of causation from those manipulations. Why do they do it? The discovery of regularities comes with a pleasurable burst of insight, which all of us, but especially children and scientists, continuously long for like bonbons or opium.”
“Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is
par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.”
Source: HER LIFE AND WORK
“Children do absolutely nothing on their arrival that warrants presents every year. If anything, they should give presents to their mothers, who come close to death.”
Source: A Girl Is a Body of Water
“Children do better when they feel better.”
Source: Positive Discipline for Children with Special Needs: Raising and Teaching All Children to Become Resilient, Responsible, and Respectful
“Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.”
“Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.”
“Children do not always appreciate their parents encouraging them to explore and grow. The selfishness of a child manifests itself in his or her intent to remain a child and never enter an adult world of distress, disappointment, and jadedly surrendering an envisioned life by making commitments that limit boundless options.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Children do not constitute anyone's property:
they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society.
They belong only to their own future freedom.”