C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.”
“Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.”
“Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.”
“Children have neither past nor future;
they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.”
“Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.
[Fr., Les enfants n'ont ni passe ni avenir; et, ce qui ne nous arrive guere, ils jouissent du present.]”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
“Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes?”
Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.”
“Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.”
“Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen
“Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.”
“Children have rights outside their mother's womb without having to be victim's of Domestic Violence inside their mother's womb.”
Source: A Trap Of Malicious Blind Love A Memoir Of Sex, Seduction, Manipulation & Betrayal
“Children have special love in the universe, do not hurt your child.”
“Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings; every thought is a garden full of wonder.”
“Children have taught me to always be forgiving.”
“Children have the best imaginations ever, but sometimes they need a little help to get started. That’s where my books come in. Anything to help them interact with the page is a win, win, win!”—Kat Chen”
Source: Play Outside with Me
“Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.”
Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”
Source: The Art of Thinking
“Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.”
“Children have to fly on a separate plane, and people older than 60 have to fly on a separate plane also, because for some reason, after you get a little older, you forget that when you pull on the seat in front of you to get up from your seat that the person sitting in that seat actually feels something.”
“Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.”
“Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.”
Source: Teacher
“Children have two worlds, the one they have been given and the one they can dream about.”
Source: My Friends
“Children have very little voice, and the coroner's inquest is about Luke's voice, and making sure Luke is heard and respected and honoured. I don't want him to have died in vain.”
“Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.”
“Children. Hello, hello, hello. You care for us, and we care for you in turn. You treat us so kindly, children. You offer us so much. We are so lucky to have you. We thank you. We love you.”
Source: You Weren't Meant to Be Human
“Children hide from relational consequences more than the known logical consequences of their behavior.”
Source: Boundaries with Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Children
“Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.”
Source: Essays of E. B. White
“Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.”
Source: Italian Days
“Children holding hands, walking with the wind. That is America to me- not just the movement for civil rights, but the endless struggle to respond with decency, dignity, and a sense of brotherhood to all the challenges that face us as a nation, as a whole.”
“Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.”
“Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.”
“Children, in a very real sense, have beginners’ minds, open to wider possibilities. They see the world with fresher eyes, are less burdened with preconception and past experience, and are less guided by what they know to be true. They are more likely to pick up details that adults might discard as irrelevant. Because they’re less concerned with being wrong or looking foolish, children often ask questions that adults won’t ask.”
Source: Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
“Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.”
“Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.”
“Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: "The school is the hope for your future, listen, be good and learn" and "the school is your enemy. . . ." Children who receive the "school is the enemy" message often go after the enemy--act up, undermine the teacher, undermine the school program, or otherwise exercise their veto power.”
“Children in Indonesia are scared because they are like the property of their parents and mostly treated as such. Women are scared because they are humiliated on a daily basis and treated like meat, like sexual objects, like slaves.”
“Children in our culture are familiar with transformation of identity from comics, movies, television, and books. Who has not watched a child zooming around on the sidewalk or in the backyard, pretending to be a superhero or some other figure? Who can doubt the child's intensity of imaginative involvement in this transformation? I think it is reasonable to say that the normal child partly believes in this transformation on a transient basis.
It is not necessary to wonder where the MPD child gets the idea of creating someone else inside to cope with the abuse. The strategy of transformation of identity to gain strength, coping power, even and vulnerability is readily available in the child's environment.”
Source: Dissociative Identity Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment of Multiple Personality
“Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we Indian people are a microcosm of what's happening in America. We are now consumers, and our culture has gone.”
“Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.”
“Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.”
“Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“Children inherent principles; they do not set them.”
Source: Into the Dangerous World: Some Reflections on Childhood and Its Costs
“Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”
Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
“Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.”
Source: The Sky's the Limit
“Children interested Miss Peters, especially when she found one that had not been run into a mold or cut out of a given piece of cloth and made up like a flannel rabbit.”
Source: Roller Skates
“Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.”
Source: Love, Lucy
“Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.”
“Children just need love," Sarah had said. "It doesn't always matter from whom.”
Source: Keep the Home Fires Burning
“Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.”