Top 1200 Step Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.

Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years on this issue has shown there is no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children who are raised by opposite-sex parents. What matters is that children are being raised in a stable, loving environment.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

Yes I do like children ... Girl children...about eighteen or twenty.

The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children

In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them.

I don't even know why, but I've just always done it - I don't walk on handicapped parking spaces. I don't like to step on the blue lines. I always step over them. I don't know what the deal is. I don't know if it's a fear of injury, or a disrespectful thing, or if I just don't want to think about something like that happening.

I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don't want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. And so I think that's why I always, always try to get a workout in.

Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children.

If I have not decided to step down, it does not mean that I do not want to step down but because I want to ensure that my resignation will not affect the constitution, which must be implemented properly. This means that the Pancasila ideology and the 1945 Constitution will continue to be implemented.

When two men step into the ring, one and only one deserves to win. When you step into the ring, you gotta know you deserve to win. You gotta know destiny owes you victory , cause you trained harder than your opponent. You sparred harder. You ran farther.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "—three," and years later, "Three," she will say, "—four.

Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.

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.

Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

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

I know I haven't spent a lot of time with my children because my job takes me all over the world and takes me away from my children, but I've given them a good education and security. If anything happens to me, my children's future is well-secured. So I think I've done well as a father.

Continuing to expose the children to my and Adrienne's dysfunctional and volatile relationship is causing harm to the children.

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

It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

There are no gatekeepers in children's literature. There are children who like what you write because it's funny.

Whether they hail from different cultures, countries or faiths, children are children.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

I do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.

When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them to be adults, they are just children. And like all children, they need their mother, and they need their father. All children need their mother and their father. All children are entitled to their mother and their father.

I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

God is moving powerfully in and amongst children in this hour. You will see MANY children raised up to preach, heal, prophesy, move in miracles, signs and wonders. Numbers of young children will be visited by the Lord in areas of "Divine Intelligence" and many will go to the mission field at an early age.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

My greatest wish for my children is that they fulfill their purpose. I know that all children - and, in particular, mine - are here for a reason.

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

Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law.

...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..." ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's "Smoke Signals

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations for decades to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts on children canmean a lifetime of suffering and want - and a legacy of poverty for the next generation.

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

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.

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

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

What I have most learned from my son is to respect him and to love him unconditionally. I believe that if parents respect their children and educate them with love and justice (and not just with words, but with their own behavior) the relationship with their children will be wonderful. Then parents will always be proud of their children, and children will always be proud of their parents. There will be peace in the family, and the home will be a sanctuary.

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies?

If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?

I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

I was appalled at how children had become the focus and gravitational center of the nuclear family around which parents orbited instead of the traditional arrangement in which children orbited around their parents. This is a huge change because a critical job in early childhood is to get children weaned away from the total narcissism normal to infancy. With the children as the center of the family's actions and decisions, narcissism is at a minimum prolonged and may never significantly decline.

Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it.

Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.