#child

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies. ↗

— Delia Ephron

#destructive #enemy #energy #enthusiasm #help

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#any #child #desperate #enough #entering

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. ↗

— Julian Bond

#children #education #going #receiving #school

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? ↗

— Epictetus

#any #case #child #dead #deprived

I used to be a dusty little child. ↗

— Mike Epps

#dusty #i #little #little child #used

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#does #morality #society #test

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#bed #children #collapsed #once #parental

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable. ↗

— Bono

#action #action movie #adultery #blood #car

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #approach #aware #childhood #children

You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine. ↗

— Cory Booker

#accomplish #afford #allows #bigger #care