Top 1200 Gifted Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?.

I have nine children. Four of my children are adopted. We talk about those who have nothing. My children started with nothing, some of them.

Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. We have to fight for it and protect it and then hand it to them, so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.

The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.

I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

Unfortunately, hardworking, academically gifted young people are kind of lazy when it comes to determining direction.

I learnt German as well as English, so by the time I was three my parents has already decided I was a gifted child.

My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people's rhetoric. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children. Something I can learn from children is transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity and I think that my friendship with children has a much deeper meaning than others.

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

There are actually very few deeply 'gifted' kids with transcendent cognitive or artistic abilities.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.

I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parentsduring this period is that they cannot do the work of living and relating for their children. They can be sounding boards and they can probe with the children the consequences of alternative actions.

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.

Amory Lovins says the primary design criteria he uses is the question How do we love all the children? Not just our children, not just the ones who look like us or who have resources, not just the human children but the young of birds and salmon and redwood trees. When we love all the children, when that love is truly sacred to us in the sense of being most important, then we have to take action in the world to enact that love. We are called to make the earth a place where all the children can thrive.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

I have been a spokesperson for Operation Smile for twenty years helping children with facial deformities. I also have worked with a children's mission called Compassion International. Both are doing amazing work for the children of the world.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children. I love talking with them.

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.

All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time

We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.

Each of us has been gifted uniquely by God, and should use it to good capacity.

Although adults have a role to play in teaching social skills to children, it is often best that they play it unobtrusively. In particular, adults must guard against embarrassing unskilled children by correcting them too publicly and against labeling children as shy in ways that may lead the children to see themselves in just that way.

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

I know I have a left foot that was probably gifted to me by God, or someone up there, and I can always rely on it.

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

Clearly, children need to be aware of the news and current affairs. I buy my own children a children's newspaper so they can form their own views.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children.

I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times.

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

We shouldn't still be asking, 'Have you got children? Why've you not got children? Ooh, you must have children!' Bog off, d'you know what I mean?

I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.

You can recognize that you've been gifted in certain ways and be very thankful for that, but it doesn't mean that you brag about it.

I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

It is not unusual for children to follow the paths cut by their parents. You frequently see the children of doctors enter medicine, military members' children enlist. In my family, we witnessed different forms of public and community service.

There are so many families around the country that can't have children. We can improve options so families can have children, can adopt more readily those children.

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.