C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.”
“Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.”
“Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.”
Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig
“Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them”
Source: Some thoughts on education and an essay on the consequences of the lowering of interest and raising the value of money
“Children get dealt grossly unequal hands, but that is all the more reason to treat them equally in school, Chris thought. "I think the cruelest form of prejudice is... if I ever said, 'Clarence is poor, so I'll expect less of him than Alice.' Maybe he won't do what Alice does. But I want his best." She knew that precept wasn't as simple as it sounded. Treating children equally often means treating them very differently. But it also means bringing the same moral force to bear on all of them, saying, in effect, to Clarence that you matter as much as Alice and won't get away with not working, and to Alice that you won't be allowed to stay where you are either.”
Source: Among Schoolchildren
“Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it's a sort of compensation for having been born. 'There are no strings on me!' They sang; but I, pinnoccio, saw the strings. Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.”
Source: Midnight’s Children
“Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.”
“Children get used to the thought of their fate depends on powerful parents deciding everything in their life”
“Children give life a reason to be - they make life.”
“Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.”
“Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.”
“Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.”
“Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.”
Source: The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories
“Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old. Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.”
“Children growing up after the Great Rewiring skip through multiple networks whose nodes are a mix of known and unknown people, some using aliases and avatars, many of whom will have vanished by next year, or perhaps by tomorrow. Life in these networks is often a daily tornado of memes, fads, and ephemeral micro-dramas, played out among a rotating cast of millions of bit players. They have no roots to anchor them or nourish them; they have no clear set of norms to constrain them and guide them on the path to adulthood.”
Source: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.”
Source: Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel
“Children had taken pleasure in whispering to one another. That in other, worse-off villages, neighbors would swap their youngest children to eat... But now, seeing her father avoiding her gaze, the girl realized it wasn't just a story...In that one terrible moment, she knew what her fate of nothing meant.”
Source: She Who Became the Sun
“Children had to know pain or how would they ever know what to do when they encountered it. Trouble would come no matter what. The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them, as it would, they'd be able to survive it. Teach your children well.”
Source: Count the Ways
“Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.”
Source: Mrs. Hemingway
“Children happily played "cowboys and Indians" but stopped short of "masters and slaves.”
“Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.”
Source: The Day of the Triffids
“Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.”
Source: Childhood
“Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.”
“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.”
“Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.”
“Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.”
“Children have a remarkable ability to focus only on the good, and my child was no exception.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.”
Source: The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of Life and Laughter
“Children have a right to be children. They have a right to spend their early years being playful, spontaneous, and irresponsible.”
Source: Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
“Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.”
“Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.”
“Children have a ton of mirror neurons when they are babies and kids and they mimic what they see and so heroes are important because we are watching these heroes make a difference in these peoples lives and sacrificing their lives in some cases and I think it is really important to know that it is not just about us but about the community.”
“Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.”
Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir
“Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.”
“Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.”
Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
“Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a young age you can really change a life. There are a lot of studies that show that one act of kindness to these children has a 40% chance of making that child have a completely different outcome in their life. What you hope is that you can get a kid to believe in something and to believe in themselves.”
“Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always be you.”
Source: I Love You Too
“Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.”
“Children have always tumbled down rabbit holes, fallen through mirrors, been swept away by unseasonal floods or carried off by tornadoes. Children have always traveled, and because they are young and bright and full of contradictions, they haven’t always restricted their travel to the possible. Adulthood brings limitations like gravity and linear space and the idea that bedtime is a real thing, and not an artificially imposed curfew. Adults can still tumble down rabbit holes and into enchanted wardrobes, but it happens less and less with every year they live. Maybe this is a natural consequence of living in a world where being careful is a necessary survival trait, where logic wears away the potential for something bigger and better than the obvious. Childhood melts, and flights of fancy are replaced by rules. Tornados kill people: they don’t carry them off to magical worlds. Talking foxes are a sign of fever, not guides sent to start some grand adventure.
But children, ah, children. Children follow the foxes, and open the wardrobes, and peek beneath the bridge. Children climb the walls and fall down the wells and run the razor’s edge of possibility until sometimes, just sometimes, the possible surrenders and shows them the way to go home.”
Source: Beneath the Sugar Sky
“Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.”
“Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.”
“Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.”
“Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.”
Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually
“Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.”
“Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.”
Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding
“Children have become disengaged from nature and we need to reintroduce them to the pleasure that it brings. If we do that they will care for it. Through the simple act of planting a tree we can open their eyes to nature's beauty.”
“Children have but little charity for one another's defects”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays