Top 1200 Children Of Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.

The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.

I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.

I have five children of my own, so as a father I understand how important it is to help children in any way you can.

Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.

I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.

I've never written specifically for children as such. I write to please myself, and if it is suitable, it gets printed as a children's book.

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.

No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well - and for each of God's children.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

Adults are just children sometimes. But evil, hurt children.

Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

The message was that... fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.

I think people don't really actually talk about what their real issue is, which is that white, cis men - not straight men, but cis men - have had their hands on the narrative ever since filmmaking has begun.

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

I watched my children grow up, then they left home and had their own children. You miss them.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings', fantasies.

Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.

I don't think discovery of a new planet has a huge meaning for children now, but what it means is the world they're growing up in is very different from children of previous generations. We had Star Trek, Star Wars and Futurama - and we still do - but for children today, they will grow up in a world where other stars were known.

If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine - for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish.

I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.

I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.

I think the love small children give to their parents is unconditional. Even if children are abandoned or nearly killed by their parents, they will still love them. No matter what. That's why parents shouldn't let their children go, no matter what. She betrayed my love. I don't want to see her.

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.

Everyone wants their children to go to school, to have a job, a roof over their head, feed their children.

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

One thing that all of my children, biological and foster children, have taught me is the unbelievable diversity of talent and giftedness that all people have.

Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.