C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children key off their parents’ reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.”
Source: NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
“Children know at once when something’s wrong. They are used to having to guess what grown-ups don’t tell them.”
Source: Inkdeath
“Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.”
“Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency”
“Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.”
“Children know something that most people have forgotten.”
Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be there to help them find the answer-our librarians. (A librarian's) job is an important one. Our nation runs on the fuel of information and imagination that libraries provide. And they are in charge of collecting and sharing this information in a helpful way. Librarians inform the public, and by doing so, they strengthen our great democracy.”
“Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.”
Source: J. B.
“Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.”
“Children know. They breathe it in early, for there's no unknowing the difference between nannies, cleaners, below stairs people and the family upstairs. Children are the go-betweens, one foot in each world, and yet they know very well from the earliest age where they belong, where their destiny lies or, to put it crudely, who pays whom. From a young age their loyalties are torn, betrayal of both inevitable, colluding in complaints with gossip passing each way, upstairs and down...love that nanny, au pair, housekeeper or any paid employee - but never forever. Never equally. Tiny hands steeped young in the essence of class and caste.”
Source: An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
“Children know you ought to be fair. Especially fifth graders. I love fifth graders. They know that bullying is wrong. They know that you should praise one another, and that differences make a strong community. So sometimes I feel as though I can't wait for the fifth graders to grow up and rule the world.”
“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Children, language, lands: almost everything was stripped away, stolen when you weren’t looking because you were trying to stay alive. In the face of such loss, one thing our people could not surrender was the meaning of land. In the settler mind, land was property, real estate, capital, or natural resources. But to our people, it was everything: identity, the connection to our ancestors, the home of our nonhuman kinfolk, our pharmacy, our library, the source of all that sustained us. Our lands were where our responsibility to the world was enacted, sacred ground. It belonged to itself; it was a gift, not a commodity, so it could never be bought or sold. These are the meanings people took with them when they were forced from their ancient homelands to new places.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.”
Source: God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times
“Children learn bullying behavior from adults, but no one talks about this transfer of destructive behavior.”
Source: The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health
“Children learn by what they see. They are a reflection of their home, friends and school life.”
“Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.”
Source: I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education
“Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.”
“Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.”
Source: The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
“Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.”
“Children learn to care by experiencing good care. They come to know the blessings of gentleness, or sympathy, of patience and kindness, of support and backing first through the way in which they themselves are treated.”
“Children learn to smile from their parents.”
“Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.”
Source: Middlesex
“Children learn what they live.
If a child lives with criticism... he learns to condemn.
If he lives with hostility... he learns to fight.
If he lives with ridicule... he learns to be shy.
If he lives with shame... he learns to be guilty.
If he lives with tolerance... he learns confidence.
If he lives with praise... he learns to appreciate.
If he lives with fairness... he learns about justice”
“Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.”
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
“Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood
“Children leave the streets early,
Yet there are games to play.
No matter, it is still fine.
A person leaves someone early,
Yet there is a lot to see.
No matter, it is still fine.
A leaf leaves the tree early,
Yet there is a time.
No matter, it is still fine.
Leaving the world early
still stands in line.”
Source: a Song a Poem
“Children leave. And parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father. And he will always leave a light on for you.”
“Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.”
“children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.”
Source: Bowen's Court
“Children, like pants and flowers, are organic. We grow at different rates and have different needs and that's ok.”
Source: The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
“Children, like plants and flowers, are organic. We grow at different rates and have different needs and that's ok.”
Source: The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
“Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.”
“Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the fear and hatred they harbor for all that they can't explain, control, or understand.”
“Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.”
“Children listen to their parents
And to their wife when they are bigger.
In places where women are of little consequence,
they listen to an imam.
Hopefully it's a good one.
(From: Kinderpraat)”
“Children live in a way that is very generous. They learn from a young age what you value; they watch your every move. If you value writing, they will learn quickly to value it too, as something they can give to someone, or receive with pleasure from someone else.”
Source: Your Child's Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age
“Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in silence. It isn’t that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder.”
“Children live in abundance.”
“Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.”
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.”
Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“Children live life as a controlled experiment.”
Source: All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
“Children live what they learn.”
“Children long to be loved but at the same time they give the most love. We were once all like that.”
Source: Almond
“Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their relationships with their parents, their grandparents, their peers, and their teachers that help them to know that for sure. A child can learn the word "hug" and the letters h-u-g through a computer, but a computer can never give the child a hug.”
“Children lose interest in their parents when they are left. They are not sentimental. They are passionate and cold. [...] They learn to pretend. And pretense becomes the most active, the realest part, alluring as dreams. It takes place of what we think is real. - pg. 11-12”
Source: S. S. Proleterka
“Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.”