Quotes and Sayings About Children

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
-- Alan Bennett

#Children #Cheesy #Humanity

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
-- Alan Bennett

#Children #Grass

Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
-- Alan Bradley

#Children #Writing #Ideas

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
-- Alan Bradley

#Children #Father #Book

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
-- Alan Dean Foster

#Children #Revenge #Games

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
-- Alan Dundes

#Children #Grandparent #Example

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.
-- Alan Garner

#Children #Attitude #Book

How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.
-- Alan Gottlieb

#Country #Children #Men

Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
-- Alan Hirsch

#Children #Adventure #Risk

I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.
-- Alan Hollinghurst

#Children #Book #Writing

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.
-- Alan Jackson

#Children #Work #Hero

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?
-- Alan Jackson

#Children #People #Politics

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
-- Alan Jay Lerner

#Children #Writing #Speak

Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.
-- Alan Jay Lerner

#Children #Littles #Young

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
-- Alan Jay Lerner

#Children #Writing #Years

We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free people retain the moral and material means to discipline its own government, should the temptation to tyranny take root.
-- Alan Keyes

#Children #Mean #Government

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
-- Alan Keyes

#Children #Educational #Passion

If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.
-- Alan Keyes

#Children #Mean #Abortion

We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.
-- Alan Keyes

#Education #Country #Children

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
-- Alan Lightman

#Children #Cutting #Emotional

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.
-- Alan Moore

#Children #Selfish #Taken

What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?
-- Alan Moore

#Children #Struggle #Mean

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
-- Alan Paton

#Running #Country #Children

There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
-- Alan Paton

#Country #Children #Hate

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
-- Alan Paton

#Country #Children #Giving

For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
-- Alan Paton

#Dream #Children #Men

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
-- Alan Paton

#Money #Children #Clothes

The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.
-- Alan Plater

#Children #Creativity #Assets

Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there’s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it’s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it’s rather tedious to fill in the branches…
-- Alan Rickman

#Teacher #Children #Life Changing

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
-- Alan Rickman

#Children #Hate #Thinking