C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children with harsh fathers accept much of what is thrown their way as normal because they don’t have a frame of reference for anything else, and this twisted template unfortunately becomes the basis for their picture of the heavenly Father.”
Source: Southern Legal Thriller 3-in-1 Bundle
“Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.”
“Children with heaven in their eyes and an air of mystery about them, meditative and quiet, friends of God, friends of all, loved and loving and asking very little from the outer world, because they have more than enough within. They are classed as the dreamers, but they are really seers. They do not ask much and they do not need much beyond a reverent guardianship and to be let alone and allowed to grow; they will find this way for they are 'taught of God.”
Source: The Education of Catholic Girls
“Children with less opportunities often become adults with more flexibility.”
“Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.”
“Children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.”
“Children without shoes or socks dangled their legs from the balconies unable to fly, longing for the freedom of the skies. But their homes were small, cramped cages.”
Source: The Snow Queen
“Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.”
“Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle!”
“Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they’d choose to hate themselves.”
Source: Piercing
“Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease.”
Source: Piercing
“Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should be: Is a parent criminally responsible for leaving an unlocked container of bleach below the sink?”
“Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.”
Source: Oxford Children's Classics: The Secret Garden
“Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.”
“Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's book - which might surprise you because I think a lot of people think it's the other way around.”
“Children's books are by nature partisan.”
“Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.”
“Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.”
“Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.”
“Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.”
“Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.”
“Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.”
“Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.”
“Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.”
“Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”
“Children's lies are signs of great talent.”
“Children's lives are not shaped solely by their families or immediate surroundings at large. That is why we must avoid the false dichotomy that says only government or only family is responsible. . . . Personal values and national policies must both play a role.”
“Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.”
“Children's programming in America, I think it's pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It's pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don't find any of that stimulating for children.”
“Children's stories force logic upon the gruesome facts of our lives. They mirror our troubles and submit them to a chain of causality.”
“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
“Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.”
“Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.”
Source: Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community, 10th Anniversary Edition
“Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.”
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud.”
Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century
“Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to which they can pass with pleasure and expedition by means of ever-improving transportation, will be able to tune in their television and radio to the moving picture lecture of, let us say, President Lowell of Harvard; the professor of Mathematics of Oxford; of the doctor of Indian antiquities of Delhi, etc.”
“Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.”
“Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?”
“Children, behold the Chimpanzee:
He sits on the ancestral tree
From which we sprang in ages gone.”
Source: This Giddy Globe
“Children, being small and weak, have little market value.”
“Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.”
Source: The Gone-Away World
“Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.”
“Children, daily practice of yoga or sun salutations (surya-namaskara) is very good for health and for spiritual practice. Lack of proper exercise is the cause of many of today's diseases. If we can get somewhere in time on foot, always walk instead of taking a vehicle. It is good exercise. Only if we have to go far should we depend on vehicles. Use a bicycle, whenever possible. This will save money, too.”
“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
“Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative thoughts about others, our minds become impure.”
“Children, don't waste a single second.
Serve others, above all the poor,
expecting nothing in return.
Just as the person who offers God flowers
is the first to enjoy their fragrance,
the person who offers compassion
is the first to receive its blessing.
Wherever a heart beats
with compassion:
God is there.”
“Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.”
“Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.”
Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood