C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.”
“Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.”
Source: The works of John Locke ...
“Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.”
“Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.”
“Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times - a delightful double existence; and this joy they will find, for the most part, in their story books. Their lessons, too, history and geography, should cultivate their conceptive powers. If the children do not live in the times of his history lesson, be not at home in the climate his geography book describes, why, these lessons will fail of their purpose.”
“Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.”
“Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.”
“Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.”
“Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous
habit.’
‘I agree, Grandmamma.”
Source: The Witches
“Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.”
Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day
“Children should not be taught to get a job or pursue a profession. Children should be taught to discover their passion and with it define their mission.”
“Children should not be used as pawns in a political fight.”
“Children should not have to bear the weight of adult struggles.”
Source: Life is not Complicated, You Are
“Children should not repeat their parents’ mistakes, especially if their parents are around to warn them.”
Source: Palace Intrigue
“Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.”
“Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favourite verse in one poem and another.”
“Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.”
“Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.”
“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.”
“Children smile 400 times a day on average ... adults 15 times.
Children laugh 150 times a day ... adults 6 times per day.
Children play between 4-6 hours a day ... adults only 20 minutes a day.
What's happened?”
“Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.”
Source: Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
“Children spell love with four letters: T-I-M-E.”
Source: Dad Time: Savoring the God-Given Moments of Fatherhood
“children spend their time for they think they have more time; adults cry over their time for they see they have less time”
“Children splashing joyfully in puddles brings tears to grandparents' eyes because they know that one day the children will grow up and grow old.”
Source: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.”
“Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.”
“Children still fly kites from high on the hilltop, shrieking in delight as the nylon floats off toward the sunshine as if it was the most magnificent thrill in the world. All I can think to say, hoping those small boys could hear me, is 'fly on.”
Source: Afghanistan: The End of the U.S. Footprint and the Rise of the Taliban Rule
“Children still, on the verge of not being children any more.”
Source: The Promise
“Children such the lives out of their mothers. They drain them until they are little more than husks. But they are good for the soul.”
Source: Heart of the Fae
“Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.”
“Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.”
“Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works
“Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.”
“Children teach us not to take as standard what we live in a routine. They teach us that who has power is who decides to have it. It is a superhuman thing to take the power of the legacy and live with it.”
“Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.”
“Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.”
“Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That's the secret to life, really: never stop learning. It's the secret to career. I'm still working because I learn something new all the time. It's the secret to relationships. Never think you've got it all.”
“Children, teenagers, and young adults frequently attempt to duplicate their cult hero’s mannerisms. Sometimes when we observe youngsters attempting to emulate the gestures and behaviors of a celebrity whom they admire, we state that they are putting on airs or engaging in pretensions. Adults tend to fob off such pretentious behavior as a frivolous act engaged in by children. In actuality, pretentious behavior is an important learning rubric for behavior and character formation. Imitation is more than a form of flattery. When young people mimic admired celebrities they are displaying telling behavior regarding what subjects spikes their interest and this in turn might provide clues to their future vocational and recreational activities. By engaging in mimicry, we are able to audition our future self. Just as many athletes begin in their youth attempting to impersonate the style of their sports idols, young people universally attempt to copy the mannerisms and behaviorisms of people whom they respect. Mimicry is one way that people feel safe exploring what persona they wish to adopt. How many rock stars and other successful people endorsed the mantra, ‘Fake it ‘till you make it.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Children ten years old wake up and find themselves here, discover themselves to have been here all along; is this sad? They wake like sleepwalkers, in full stride; they wake like people brought back from cardiac arrest or from drowning: in medias res, surrounded by familiar people and objects, equipped with a hundred skills. They know the neighborhood, they can read and write English, they are old hands at the commonplace mysteries, and yet they feel themselves to have just stepped off the boat, just converged with their bodies, just flown down from a trance, to lodge in an eerily familiar life already well under way.
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. I woke at intervals until, by that September when Father went down the river, the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not. I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.”
Source: An American Childhood
“Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“Children tend to rate tasks by how much discomfort it causes them and would literally be comfortable with doing badly on such tasks no matter how simple it seems or is portrayed by others. There is a cycle called the cycle of resistance that explains this. If a task or chore causes children or even adults to struggle emotionally or physically, it always takes extra effort to beat this disdain that they consciously or unconsciously associate with it.”
“Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.”
“Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.”
Source: Spiritual Gifts Vol 3 & 4
“Children that play outside develop better problem solving skills and have a stronger ability to work within a group.”
“Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.”
“Children think around corners.”
Source: Stephen King and Philosophy
“Children think that adults know life, uneducated think that educated people know it, poor think that rich know it, subjects think that the rulers know it. The truth is that everyone is equally clueless. Awakened ones know the sweet secret but can't tell it.”
“Children think the strangest things, don’t they? Because anyone who is afraid of thunder is nothing more than a child.”
Source: Strange Weather in Tokyo
“Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and with traditional two-parent families. What children require is loving and attentive adults, not a particular family type.”