Best our-children & littles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.”

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest requests at times! Often we are grieved by the meanness and selfishness in their requests, but we would be all the more grieved if they never came to us even with their meanness and selfishness. We are simply glad that they do come--mixed motives and all.”

Ifs Children Littles Would Be Jesus Parent Prayer Our Children Glad Selfishness Motive Request Meanness Craziest

Book:Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home

Source: Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home

“I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don't happen again.”

Thinking Trying Children Littles Sometimes Happens Bits Discipline Involved Little Bit Fairs Our Children Punishment Your Children Bad Experiences

Author:Archie Manning

“Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.”

Children Littles Mother Sleep Rooms Air Scene Findings Our Children Errors Faults Your Children Sunshine Surroundings Confinement Good Nature Scolding Fault Finding

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.”

Mind Children Littles Book States Able Order Childhood Special Baby Our Children Innocence Your Children State Of Mind Toys

Author:Idina Menzel

“I had four children. And my youngest when we started was like, oh, gosh, 2 or a little less. And sometimes my kids would say to me, you know, how come you don't scream at those kids on television like you do us?”

Knows Children Littles Sometimes Kids Know How Four Television Like You Our Children Scream

Author:Florence Henderson

“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.”

“To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that hisactions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!”

Ifs May Children Littles Doe Moments Helping Feelings Age Parent Hurt Worry Offers Behavior Normal Our Children My Children Help Me Drivers Norm Cautious Solace Deviate

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they should now be acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and tastes that will sustain them in less materially affluent circumstances. On the other hand, the fresh insights and imaginations of your children may help you find a viable future while there's still time.”

“The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which is a little bit like putting the experience under a magnifying glass, you realize you have no idea how you thought as a kid. I've come to the conclusion that most of the things that we remember about our childhood are lies. We all have memories that stand out from when we were kids, but they're really just snapshots. You can't remember how you reacted because your whole head is different when you stand aside.”

“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth.But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”

Ifs Mind Children Littles Seems Culture Given Grows Creativity Greater Materials Tradition Encouragement Our Children Entertainment Critical Instruction

Author:C. Sommerville

“But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you.”

Children Littles America Parent Differences Four Perspective Majors Our Children Aging Privilege Your Children Vehicle Toys Fifteen Unlikely Aging Parents

Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

“Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors. We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them. This movie shows that perspective from Scott's character, and I love it. It shows the American Indians as the ones who respect and help out when people are needed. It's a nice little twist.”

“Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.”

People Children Littles Important Choices Ability Pay Television College Our Children Significant Luxury Your Children Significant Things

Author:Patricia Arquette

“It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.”

World Children Littles This World Creatures Our Children Vulnerable Your Children Mates

Author:Lauren Bowles

“In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that. All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.”

“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”

World Children Littles Today Action Bits Blood Tears Little Bit Our Children Sweat Earnest Sweat And Tears Blood Sweat And Tears Blood And Sweat Tears Of Blood

Author:Barack Obama

“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?”

May Children Littles Enough Next Cutting Eating Our Children Fundamentals Plant Curiosity Winter Seeds Driven Corn Cutting Off

Book:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.”

Mind May Mean Children Littles Has Beens Action Girl Teach Rocks Behavior Our Children Raises Reactions Tendencies Boat Thirty Really Mean

Author:Martha Stout

“You're my life, Elle. When we have our children, they'll be included in that circle and I'm not a man to lose everything. I want you as safe as possible." "So you don't think three protection dogs, a room filled with weapons, a panic room and house that eats people isn't just a little overkill?”

People Thinking Men Want Children Littles Three House Loses Rooms Dog Safe Weapons Our Children Filled Protection Circles Panic I Want You Overkill

Author:Christine Feehan

“My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - " "I am NOT naming our child Buford.”

Children Littles Next Months Our Children Eight Darling

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.”

Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs

“Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.”

Thinking Believe Children Littles Long Action Wish Walks Learning Path Advice Habit Models Our Children Patterns Profit Command Your Children Copies Instruction Despise Earnest Practise

Author:J. C. Ryle

“I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.”

Source: Science and Culture: And Other Essays

“To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.”

Love May Children Littles Choices Differences Hurt Forever Our Children Vulnerable Rescue Fear Of Death

Author:June Jordan

“We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?”

People Thinking Needs Children Littles Country Values Bits Money Rich Little Bit Our Children Rewards Our Country Cute Usefulness Instill Being Famous Being Rich

Author:Barack Obama

“No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. This is because now the ultimate reason for attending family gatherings is for your children to have the time of their lives with their cousins. Little kids love their cousins. I’m not being cute or exaggerating here. Cousins are like celebrities for little kids. If little kids had a People magazine, cousins would be on the cover. Cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be. “Are the cousins going to be there? Fun!”

Source: Dad Is Fat

“Some people here think they don’t have to breastfeed, and I think, ‘Are you going to give chemical food to your child, when they are so little?’ There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.”

People Thinking Giving Should Children Littles Law Mother Opinion Baby Months Six Our Children Your Children Chemicals Six Months

Author:Gisele Bundchen

“We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff'.”

Knows Feels Writing Littles Art I Can Matter Stuff Can Do Memories Childhood Fields Football Our Children Triumph Hockey I Can Do This Football Field Great Memories

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?”

Children Littles Care Wealth Citizens One Day Stones Our Children Fellows Your Children

Author:Socrates

“Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying, as every child is the little Buddha who helps his parents to grow up.”

Children Littles Helping Care Grows Parent Worry Growing Up Balance Our Children Your Children Bless Trustworthiness

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Little brats yellin 'Trick or Treat' all through my screen door, When y'all should be at home sleep, Instead of at my front porch 15 deep. The jack o' lantern came in handy... I can turn my porch light out like I ain't got no candy. But ain't that somethin? You buy a Halloween costume and a pumpkin, Almost gave your children a heart attack. It's a tradition, but who the hell started that?”

“And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.”

Littles War Childhood Our Children Dresses Bills Rehearsal Butchers

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.”

Children Littles Matter Beautiful Joy Felt Our Children Your Children Little Things Delicious

Author:Didi

“We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.”

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