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Children

«Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world»
«All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent»
Author: Elinor Smith | About: Children, Parents | Keywords: heredity, on the side
«A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.»
Author: Frank A. Clark | About: Children | Keywords: stomach
«All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.»
«All television is children's television.»
Author: Richard P. Adler | About: Children, Television | Keywords: television
«A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.»
«And when human rights are being thrown aside, ignored, well, there's no game in progress, that's all -- in spite of the childhood bible, the comic strip. It believes that only when you're permitted to murder, kill, rob and burn can a game be in progress. That is the message carried to us by the Sunday papers. And that is the message which every child erroneously learns.»
«And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends»
Author: Bible | About: Children | Keywords: make merry, transgressed
«As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.»
Author: Dave Barry (Humorist, Writer) | About: Children, Fear | Keywords: Dracula, for example, shots, tetanus
«Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love»

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