C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane”
Source: Rosie Dunne
“Children need continuity as they grow and learn.”
“Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!”
“Children need encouragement like plants need water”
Source: Encouraging Children to Learn
“Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.”
“Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how to work and live together.”
Source: Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships
“Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.”
Source: See, I Told You So
“Children need love the most when they deserve it the least.”
“Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.”
“Children need models rather than critics.”
“Children need more time to be simply children and adults need more time to remember their childhood and how they once played.”
Source: Have You Ever Had a Hunch? The Importance of Creative Thinking
“Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.”
“Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.”
“Children need systems that are inclusive and driven by them, systems that will enable them to respond to their feelings and needs at any time.”
“Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.”
Source: Exuberance: The Passion for Life
“Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds; parents need it to be able to get up the next morning.”
Source: Beartown
“Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.”
Source: Life Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom
“Children need their caregiver’s presence, interaction, connection, and emotional availability. Not only are these fundamental elements closely related to feelings of safety and security, they are also vital for a child’s healthy development. Since the child’s well-being depends on the bond between themselves and their caregiver, it is their caregiver’s responsibility to be very attentive both to their own selves and to their child.”
Source: Human Development and Trauma: How Childhood Shapes Us into Who We Are as Adults
“Children need to be taught about forced marriage and how an arranged wedding can be a forced marriage if either party doesn't freely consent to it.”
Source: FORCED TO MARRY HIM: A Lifetime of Tradition and the Will to Break It
“Children need to exercise their freedom of choice while we are there to guide them. We must loosen the reins gradually as our children grow up. We should be prepared for moments when our children’s freedom causes us anguish—this anguish is akin to the compassionate suffering of God, who undertook the ”risk” of creation. Restraint of almost grown-up children is a cheap solution; it is easier, but less effective, than understanding and prayer. If a child has been brought up in the spirit of Christ, it will hardly ever be necessary.”
Source: Children in the Church Today: An Orthodox Perspective
“Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.”
“Children need to know that the things that make them vastly different from one another are the very things that make them beautifully special.”
Source: Red Is the Color Of...
“Children need to know that they matter, that someone in this big, scary, beautiful world thinks that they are the sun, moon, and stars all rolled into one lovable little human. The world will hurt and disillusion them at times, no doubt, but knowing that they are loved beyond measure by someone who's got their back, knowing they are not alone, knowing they always have arms to run to when they're hurt or afraid, will help them to pick themselves up and move on, again and again and again.”
“Children need to make mistakes and discover that it's not the end of the world. That's how they gain the confidence to try new things in life. Toxic parents impose unobtainable goals, impossible expectations, and ever-changing rules on their children. They expect their children to respond with a degree of maturity that can come only from life experiences that are inaccessible to a child. Children are not miniature adults, but toxic parents expect them to act as if they were.”
Source: Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
“Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.”
Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully
“Children need to see themselves in books. They need to see their gender. They need to see their color, hair texture, their disability, themselves. Picture books are like many children’s first introduction to the world. Seeing yourself is almost like a message. It’s saying, you matter, you are visible, and you’re valuable”
“children need truly evolved people - not other, larger children - as parents. Therefore, don't have a child until you've forged your own identity, can support yourself, and have already begun the work of creating or maintaining an extended family.”
“Children need your attention above all else. The quality of your attention is the single most important gift you can give a child.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!”
Source: Catherine-Paris
“Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, "Encore, Papa."”
“Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.”
“Children notice things first, people later.”
Source: Signposts in a Strange Land
“Children, now being very costly to raise, no longer provide a financial benefit to their parents. So children must instead provide meaning to make up for the missing material benefits. Having children is also, for the first time in human experience, genuinely a choice rather than a matter of course or providence. This choice must be justified, as it did not have to be in the past.”
Source: Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
“Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.”
“Children now will go there entire lives without a single grass stain on their jeans”
“Children nurtured in kindness learn the value of understanding. Children taught to be self-sufficient, to respect others, to value education and to build life up rather than to tear it down will become adults capable of leading us to a brighter future. For (as Karl Menninger noted) what's done to children, they will do to society.”
“Children observe everything in nature.”
“Children observe everything with caution.”
“Children observe their parents' reactions during financial challenges. By demonstrating resilience, adaptability, and resourcefulness, parents can inspire their children to overcome financial obstacles with confidence.”
Source: Currency of Conversations: The Talk You've Been Waiting For About Money
“Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.”
Source: Nor any drop to drink
“Children of Blood and Bone was written during a time where I kept turning on the news and seeing stories of unarmed black men, women, and children being shot by the police. I felt afraid and angry and helpless, but this book was the one thing that made me feel like I could do something about it. I told myself that if just one person could read it and have their hearts or minds changed, then I would've done something meaningful against a problem that often feels so much bigger than myself.”
Source: Children of Blood and Bone
“Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.”
“Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if they happen to be with friends, because to greet or be greeted by their mothers in the presence of peers is to acknowledge having been (and perhaps still being) a baby.”
“Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does not provide conscience opportunity to do its perfect work. They ought to allow the Holy Spirit through their conscience to point out their sins one by one. Christians must accept its reproach and be willing, according to the mind of the Spirit, to eliminate everything which is contrary to God.”
Source: The Spiritual Man
“Children of gods always came to their strength faster than mortals. He would miss them when they were gone, I knew. But I would find something else for him. I would help him forget. I would say, some people are like constellations who only touch the earth for a season.”
Source: Circe
“Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: "real things" which were unfrequent and priceless, simply "things" which formed the routine stuff of life; and "ghost things," also called "fogs," such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a "tower," or, if they came in immediate succession, they made a "bridge." "Real towers" and "real bridges" were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though. In some circumstances, in a certain light, a neutral "thing" might look or even actually become "real" or else, conversely, it might coagulate into a fetid "fog." When the joy and the joyless happened to be intermixed, simultaneously or along the ramp of duration, one was confronted with "ruined towers" and "broken bridges.”
Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“Children of heroes have glory for breakfast.”
“Children of Men is a solemn, haunting picture, but it's also a thrilling one, partly because of the sheer bravado with which it's made. It left me feeling more fortified than drained. [Director Alfonso] Cuarón, the most openhearted of directors, prefers to give rather than take away.”
“Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.”
Source: Poems by Matthew Arnold: Lyric, dramatic, and elegiac poems