“I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.” ThinkingYearsChildrenSometimesSeemsTypeDiseaseAdultsKidneysKidney Disease Author:Marianne Wiggins
“I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school. There was something about the guys I knew in theater, we were all very vulnerable. You could tell that at some point we were made fun of.” ThinkingChildrenPersonsMadeSchoolGuyFunParticularTypeHigh SchoolTheaterVulnerable Author:Craig Brewer
“Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.” KnowsChildrenStoriesThreeForeverMinutesTypeSkillsEssentialsPagesLettersAssumingPainfulHuntingTyping Author:Susan Mitchell
“You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.” ChildrenTodayMovingParentDifficultNumbersSituationEnvironmentTypeRaisesBroadsHeroicHouseholdSingle Parent Author:Sam Brownback
“In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.” ChildrenCertainBeliefAttitudeTypeDevelopmentCircumstancesIntellectualAdultsImportanceExperimentsFormerAcquireCooperatingIntellectual Development Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.” IfsChildrenHomeDiesChanceNumbersDangerousCarTypeGunMajorityAccidentsHuntingCigaretteHolding OnLoadedLightersFirearmsFatalityLoaded Gun Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour [in my children]: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.” IfsChildrenTwoTalkingTypeGuiltBehaviourAvoidingAvoidedEntitlementSense Of Entitlement Author:John Elkann
“As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.” PeopleFirstsChildrenDifferentOrderDealsMilitaryTypeBasketball Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]” ChildrenSaidEarthPoorSunDogMinesTypePossessionCommencementUsurpationPoor Children Author:Blaise Pascal
“I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.” ChildrenFashionGrewTypeGrew UpPythonMonty Author:Michael Jai White
“Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, Youve got such a pretty face; why dont you lose some weight? Over the years Ive realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.” YearsChildrenBodyFacesUsedCertainLosesAcceptingIssuesTypeWeightFatsUsed To BeI Have LearnedRealisedPretty Face Author:Vidya Balan
“In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.” PeopleWritingKindChildrenPersonsTwoStatesWould BeLawGoalTeachCasesTeacherSacrificeExampleTypeProtectGainsOrganizationFunctionUnionsIncludingInvestingIronRepresentativesIncompetent Author:Jerry Pournelle
“With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.” WantNeedsFeelsYearsFirstsChildrenPersonsI CanBookCharacterStoriesVoicePsychologyTypeAdultsDistanceNineNarrativeFirst PersonDeep InsideNine YearsChildren's BooksNarrative Voice Author:John Boyne
“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.” ChildrenTwoFormParentParticularTypeAdultsSettingTraditionalSettingsVarietyThriveMultipleUnmarriedSingle ParentCaretakers Author:Sandra Scarr
“When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.” IfsShouldChildrenPersonsMatterEasyDarkVirtueTypeTreatsFaultsAffectionTreatedLimitationTitlesFollyMatureConceptionReverenceInfantileDazed Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation” ChildrenProblemYoungSocialInformationTypeResearchYoung ChildrenEvaluationEfficacySelf Efficacy Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.” ChildrenGovernmentSufferingThreeBornTypeReportsObesityDiabetesPrecursor Author:Tim Holden
“Book your life choices in advance the same way you would book flights, car rentals, hotels, and excursions. Figure out early on in your career whether you intend to be financially independent or marry a rich man, join the ranks of the professional elite or be the stay-at- home type, postpone having children or find part-time employment. Then fasten your seat belt and sit tight as you watch your trajectory veer off course.” MenWayChildrenBookHomeChoicesCoursesCareersWatchesRichCarFiguresTypeIndependentFlightEmploymentSeatsHotelElitesBeltsRich ManLife ChoicesHaving ChildrenStay At HomeTrajectoryPart TimeExcursionsSeat BeltsCar Rental Author:Veronique Vienne
“Parents have to understand, that even if their child isn't showing athletic excellence in a certain sport, they still need to be involved. They don't need to be involved in a military type of setting, they just need to get out and play and enjoy themselves and find it themselves.” IfsNeedsChildrenStillsPlayCertainSportsParentEnjoyMilitaryTypeInvolvedExcellenceSettingSettingsAthletic Author:Allyson Felix
“The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.” PeopleGivingWritingYearsHumansMayChildrenEyeGirlBitsBoysTypeTasteProducersHis EyesPhenomenonSmarterDefiniteBugsSpinningBrowsClumsyInsipidYarnGirl Child Author:Ben Hecht
“I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.” ChildrenLittlesI CanEndsEarthChristianStreetsTypeColdActivityCornersNeglectConsistencySecularismCovenantStreet Corners Author:John Gresham Machen
“Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game?” ThinkingChildrenHelpingLastsOpportunityGamesDecisionBrainTypeSkillsIncreaseSpeedVideoYour ChildrenDecision MakingLast TimeProcessingSpatialDecision Making Process Author:Naveen Jain
“I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.” ChildrenArtTurnsTypeDrugProfoundAlcoholDevotionDrugs And AlcoholArt And Music Author:Rosanne Cash
“I’m somebody who, as a child, had a lot of insecurity about stable housing, where I was going to be living, if I was going to have a roof over my head, all those types of things. And I know the impact it can have on you psychologically and emotionally.” IfsKnowsChildrenTypeImpactInsecurityStableRoofHousing Author:Jewel
“What I'm asking people to do is to look at their lives, wherever they may be. I mean, you may be a housewife or a mother in Gauteng and you're driving your kid to school, you know, and you've got one kid in the back and you're driving 30 kilometres to school and 30 kilometres back, so 60 kilometres in a day, to take one child to school. Is there a possibility that you can put a few more kids, some friends' kids in the car, and start saving on those types of things?” PeopleKnowsLooksMayMeanChildrenKidsSchoolMotherCarPossibilityTypeAskingDrivingSavingHousewife Author:Lewis Pugh
“I don't know if it was related to the type of music that we were doing at that time or what, but Todd Cook actually just turned to me and was like, "You know what would be a great name for a metal band? Dead Child." We talked half-jokingly that we were going to do a band. I guess as time went on, I started writing songs that were more metal sounding, and it just evolved from there. It actually started with the name first, and then the songs came second.” IfsKnowsWritingFirstsChildrenWould BeSongNamesHalfLike YouTypeBandCooksRelatedMetalsWriting SongsMetal Band Author:David Pajo
“Your child, your friend your neighbor, somebody looks up and says "You know what? I am going to move my life towards that type of goodness, doing that type of goodness, being that type of goodness and kindness. I think that is how someone becomes a hero.” ThinkingKnowsLooksChildrenMovingKindnessTypeHeroGoodnessOur ChildrenNeighborYour ChildrenLook UpGoodness And Kindness Author:John Assaraf
“There are 4 types of relationships. We generally know people who guide and help us like a parent or teacher; those who need our wisdom or help like a child or student; people with similar knowledge and experience on our life path who want to offer unconditional support; and those who do not wish to support us.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsChildrenHelpingWishParentSupportPathTeacherOur LivesStudentsTypeOffersGuidesUnconditionalLife PathKnowledge And Experience Author:John Friend
“I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.” ChildrenYoungActorsTypeCastsErasHippieYoung ActorsCounterculture Author:Rob Reiner