Top 1200 Gifted Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women's lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world's finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children's children

I was gifted with the ball, and I saw the opportunity of playing in the Bundesliga as the tool I needed to make a name for myself.

No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

I'll tell you upfront, I think Shawn Michaels was probably the most gifted worker the business has ever seen.

It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child, therefore take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54," then it's another story.

I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some restrictions, so certain things will never pop up in a Snicket book. But I didn't know anything about writing for children when I started - this is the theme of naïveté creeping up on us once more - and I sort of still don't, and I'm happy that adults are reading them as well as children.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation... when adults listen-really listen-to what the children are trying to say, their own understanding of spirit and of children are changed forever.

Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

I just imagined how fine it would be if the children could adopt mothers, of course, mothers who were single, without other children, living in a comfortable apartment, and ready to care for the children.

Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find "good" rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.

I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

I know it's become a cliche of sorts, but, nonetheless, it is true. This is the only planet we and our children and children's children will call home. We can't afford to lose this home because we didn't protect it.

I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a gradual but certain erosion of these boundaries that once separated the world of children from the word of adults, boundaries that allowed adults to treat children differently than they treated other adults because they understood that children are different.

I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.

If you talk about natural ability, I think Apollo's probably the most naturally gifted athlete of the new era.

Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

As naturally athletic as I'm gifted to be, where certain things came easily, I always rely on my brain first.

I always thought Stuart deserved a little bit of fame. He was a gifted artist and a very wonderful person.

Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.

All the female characters in 'The Gifted' are stronger than the men. We're not waiting around to be saved but spearheading the missions.

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

The biggest superstar of our country is Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, who I feel is the most gifted comedian of all times.

You have seen cricketers who are not god-gifted, but even then, they have gone far. That's because of the passion.

My most frequent collaborators at S.N.L. are the incredibly gifted writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider!

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

Teach the Scriptures to your children daily, discipline your children consistently, and love your children unconditionally. If you do these things, you will have acted biblically.

Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs lifesaving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Comey is an extraordinarily gifted man who has contributed much during his many years of public service.

No celebrity bullshit,no self promotion,an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

My views are politically incorrect. Such as why we allow children to say what they think. It's not how to bring up children. And now people give their children choices, like what they want to eat. Kids can't deal with choices.