C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children love both magic and science for the same reason both are enablers. Both offer power and solutions to impossible problems. But then something shifts when people discover the instability magic brings to existence. It shatters the world that’s been built on predictability and logic. Suddenly the material, the countable, the definable is pulled from underfoot by the capricious, slippery and ego-centric nature of the mind. In that respect it’s the opposite of science, which remains dispassionate and impartial to the observer, predictable no matter what. The laws of motion won’t change because the scientist gets a speeding fine.”
Source: Magic
“Children love creating, cultivating, exploring and celebrating friendship.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Children love. It isn’t hard for them. They don’t see race or economic class, ex-con or homeless person. They only see people they love. It is a risk to take our children into the mess, and we think we are teaching them how to minister there, but in reality they are the ones who teach us to love because they are Love. And perfect Love casts out fear.”
Source: Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district
“Children love me, dammit!”
“Children love pointless violence. Children are still animals who haven't quite yet learned they're supposed to be something else.”
Source: Superego
“Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy”
“Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable.”
“Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.”
Source: The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories
“Children love to fight and rarely think about death. They are the perfect soldiers.”
“Children made no sense. You could spend hours trying to convince your child that a red cup was just as good as a blue cup and they’d refuse to see the logic in that. And yet they could see the violent actions of an animal and immediately empathize with why the creature might have been provoked into them.”
Source: Homeseeking
“Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!”
“Children make everyone the same again. Life no longer has an end. People will always have children. It's the only salve for wounds caused by grief. Grief for oneself, even."
"Imagine the grief of losing a child, then," I say.”
Source: Orphans of Canland
“Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.”
“Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.”
Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Children make the best measurements of time. It is only when I see the son or daughter of a friend or relative over periods of time, do I realize how much time has passed based on how much they've grown.”
“Children make the best theorists, since they have not yet been educated into accepting our routine social practices as "natural," and so insist on posing to those practices the most embarrassingly general and fundamental questions, regarding them with a wondering estrangement which we adults have long forgotten. Since they do not yet grasp our social practices as inevitable, they do not see why we might not do things differently.”
Source: The Significance of Theory
“Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.”
“Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.”
“Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?"”
“Children make you helpless. You can have all the power one can imagine, and if you cannot keep them safe from themselves and the world, it does not matter.”
Source: Sword Catcher
“Children make you want to start life over.”
“Children make your life important.”
Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
“Children may be able to memorize enough formulas and facts to pass the test, but they literally have no idea what they’re talking about. When asked the question in a slightly different way or with a practical application, the appearance of understanding simply collapses.”
“children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”
“Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.”
“Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there's something more than meets the eye; on an almost subliminal level, they're aware of a richness of texture, or meaning and emotion -- a richness that, in a great book, is inexhaustible. And the child may well come back to it again and again, perhaps long after he's stopped being a child.”
“Children may sleep with a prayer-rope in their hand or under their pillow—and they may include saying the Jesus prayer (even only a few times) in their prayers.”
Source: Children in the Church Today: An Orthodox Perspective
“Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“Children mirror our habits. They don’t learn balance from lectures—but from watching us choose it.”
Source: Digital Detox Parenting: The Science-Backed Guide to Raising Screen-Free, Emotionally Resilient Kids: Neuroscience-Backed Strategies for Lifelong Resilience
“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.”
“Children move stones with their feet. Men move rocks with their hands. Women move mountains with their hearts.”
“Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.”
Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“Children must be educated by love, not punishment.”
“Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.”
“Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.”
“Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Children must be taught how to think and not what to think. This is the responsibility of parents, if not parents, than the great community, who must equip them with the weapons of discernment and knowledge.”
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
Source: Coming of Age in Samoa
“Children must be taught that they are worth being heard, being saved and being loved.”
“Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.”
“Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.”
Source: Montessori's Own Handbook
“Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.”
“Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.”
“Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.”
Source: Findings
“Children naturally ask all kinds of questions and take a long time to tell their stories, and in millions of homes the parents are doing something else as they reply, “Yes, yes, I see.” And in millions of homes, the parents are surprised when their children don’t listen to them.
Those little bright eyes know when your attention is wandering. When they are telling you the news from school, give your full attention. Everything else can be set aside for the moment. You are teaching your children to listen to you.”
Source: Take Your Time: How to Find Patience, Peace, and Meaning
“Children need a great deal of free play to thrive. It’s an imperative that’s evident across all mammal species. The small scale challenged and setbacks that happen during play are like an inoculation that prepares children to face much larger challenges later.”
Source: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
“Children need a little space to test out their autonomy when on the top of the Circle, but they still need to know we’re nearby and available as needed.”
Source: Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
“Children need adult men in their lives.”
“Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child--what she or he can handle--and to individual differences among children.”
“Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.”