C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.”
Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.”
“Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.”
Source: I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education
“Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.”
“Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market.”
“Children do not lie about sexual abuse, Speak out now!”
“Children do not only have an innate hope; they are hope. And more than that: they are our future. As Kahlil Gibran writes, they are like "living arrows sent forth" into infinity, and their souls "dwell in the house of tomorrow..." They carry their hope with them to a future we can't see.
Children come to us fresh from the divine source, from what I call "Mama," from life itself, and they lead us to the same: to the God-force within creation. That is why none of us - no matter our race, creed, religion, or politics - can look at a child and not feel joy. We look at them, and something thrills us to the depth of our hearts. They are living miracles, and when we see them we know that there is a God, that life itself is a miracle. Children show us, with their innocence and clarity, the very face of God in human form.”
Source: Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
“Children do not play because they learn; They play because they play.”
“Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.”
“Children do not tolerate injustice
and obey their parents.
That will remain so as they get bigger.
Only then they sometimes obey
a voice on the internet.
(From: Kinderpraat)”
“Children do run from me. And so do some adults.”
“Children don't need you to be the best reader, just a willing one.”
“Children don't realize how bad things are. This is their norm. They don't realize how much of their childhood is being stolen by screens. They simply have no escape. It follows them home. It follows them everywhere. The phone is always on their minds. Texts are constant, often misinterpreted, hurtful, with no visual cues. They take the place of learning how to have genuine conversations.”
“Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.”
“Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.”
“Children don't get cheaper when they turn six.”
“Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.”
“Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.”
“Children don't just get milk from breastfeeding, they get our energy too.”
“Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.”
“Children don't know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.”
“Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.”
“Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.”
“Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.”
“Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.”
“Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.”
“Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.”
Source: Self-portrait
“Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.”
“Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Children don’t need beating. They need love and encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear. Above all, they need example.”
“Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.”
Source: The Secret Keeper: A Novel
“Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.”
Source: Scenes of Childhood
“Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.”
Source: The Jewels of the Cabots
“Children dwell in their dreams. Get them the wings and they'll fly.”
Source: Guru with Guitar
“Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.”
“Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.”
“Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.”
Source: The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
“Children especially need boundaries. They have to learn the difference between fantasy and reality from a young age, for their own safety.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Children everywhere look to their moms and dads what to do and how to be a person. I've learned what not to do and how not to be from my dad. They've been painful lessons but they've been more instructive because of that. Pain can be a powerful teacher.”
Source: No One Succeeds Alone: Learn Everything You Can from Everyone You Can
“Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other “grownups” — grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, employers, political leaders, and untold others who touch their lives directly and indirectly.”
“Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.”
“Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.”
“Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.”
Source: Zibaldone
“Children force parents to go out looking for a specific pulse, a gaze, a rhythm, the right way of telling the story, knowing that stories don't fix anything or save anyone but maybe make the world both more complex and more tolerable. And sometimes, just sometimes, more beautiful. Stories are a way of subtracting the future from the past, the only way of finding clarity in hindsight.”
Source: Lost Children Archive
“Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.”
“Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.”
“Children from all over the world have the same religion, childhood!”
“Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.”