C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children who experience narcissistic parents’ rage and disapproval hold that
feeling of 'not good enough’ which makes them vulnerable to repeating abuse
patterns.”
“Children who feel that they are unloved can believe that there must be something very wrong about them which makes them unacceptable. The stinging sense of being not right causes them confusion and hurt, but they do not give up the desire for love and acceptance. They despair of it, certainly. They pine for it and perhaps fear it. But their pursuit of love and acceptance will dovetail with an attempt to change themselves into someone the child himself can accept.”
Source: Bodies
“Children who feel unloved and unprotected are like a half-filled cup. They become incapable of ‘filling up’ because they have come to believe they are unworthy of love. They try to please others, give to others, and care for others in a desperate hope that they may make themselves worthy.”
“Children who grew up in homes like mine, just them and their parents with no separation, physically or emotionally, become experts in a very particular type of seeing. We learn to see things that are hidden, and things that aren't there at all. We become particularly sensitive to the moods and emotions of others. We are nimble and excellent at shape-shifting. We oscillate between feeling special and feeling alone. We feel simultaneously capable of both saving and destroying those we love.”
Source: My Body
“Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer”
Source: Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care
“Children who grow what they eat will often eat what they grow”
“Children who had no family were the ones who cherished the idea of family the most.”
Source: Her Dark Curiosity
“Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.”
“Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.”
“Children who have faith have distinctly different characteristics from those who don't. In fact, one of the main manifestations of a person with strong faith is the ability to give—not just in terms of money or possessions, but also time, love, and encouragement.”
Source: The Power of a Praying Parent
“Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They can lean, stand, and be leaned upon, because they know what a good feeling it can be to feel needed.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.”
“Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up.”
Source: Little House on the Freeway: Help for the Hurried Home
“Children who like fighting with their parents do so because they have them! Those who do not have parents or have only one, only wish for one thing – that they had them both.”
Source: Know What Matters
“Children who need the most love — will show it in the most unloving of ways.”
“Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeply
Must take great care they do not, Paddle too deeply.'
Thus spake the awful aging couple
Whose heart the years had turned to rubble.
But the little children, to save any bother,
Let it in at one ear and out at the other.”
Source: Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
“Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.”
“Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.”
“Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.”
“Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation.”
“Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation... when adults listen-really listen-to what the children are trying to say, their own understanding of spirit and of children are changed forever.”
“children who spent time in green spaces between the ages of seven and twelve tend to think of nature as magical. As adults they are the people most likely to be indignant about lack of nature protection, while those who have had no such experience tend to regard nature as hostile or irrelevant and are indifferent to its loss. By expurgating nature from children's lives we are depriving the environment of its champions for the future.”
Source: Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
“Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.”
“Children, who want at all costs to have their way, are closest to God, for they want to exist.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“Children who were abandoned
grow up to love people
who abandon them”
Source: Planting Gardens in Graves
“Children who were very truly pious in a Catholic childhood are apt to retain a nostalgia for the absolute.”
“Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children will make poor choices just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess; this is part of life. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.”
“Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)
“Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.”
“Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.”
“Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.”
— “Supernatural Horror in Literature”
“Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.”
Source: At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition
“Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right." But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.”
“Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.”
Source: Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].
“Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.”
“Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?”
“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
“Children will remember their favorite book, but they will also remember their favorite lap.”
“Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Children will usually live up to our expectations.”
Source: Secret of Happy Children: Why Children Behave the Way They Do and What You Can Do to Help Them to Be Optimistic, Loving, Capable, and Happy
“Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.”
“Children will, in my dream, be taught that laziness and narcissism are at the very root of human evil, and why this is so. . . . They will come to know that the natural tendency of the individual in a group is to forfeit his or her ethical judgment to the leader, and that this tendency should be resisted. And they will finally see it as each individual's responsibility to continually examine himself or herself for laziness and narcissism and then to purify themselves accordingly.”
Source: The People Of The Lie
“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”
“Children wish, vulgar men hope and real men act immediately after considering all the alternatives.”
“Children with autism are colourful - they are often very beautiful and, like the rainbow, they stand out.”
Source: Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
“Children with Autism aren't missing. Instead, they are off making discoveries”
“Children with autism often face bullying or exclusion because their behaviors can appear “different.” This can lead to isolation, low self-esteem, and mental health struggles.”
“Children with borderline mothers adjust to the chaos of their lives by learning to expect the unexpected. They associate love with fear and kindness with danger.”
Source: Understanding the Borderline Mother
“Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know.”