#child

She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all these originalities in her, and to accept them. [...] This naive combination in her of the child and the thinking woman, this childlike and absolutely genuine thirst for truth and justice, and absolute faith in her impulses--all this lighted up her face with a fine glow of sincerity, giving it a lofty, spiritual beauty, and one began to understand that it was not so easy to gauge the full significance of that beauty which was not all at once apparent to every ordinary unsympathetic eye. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#child #love #sincerity #spirituality #woman

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child. ↗

— Anne Cassidy

#believing #child #crucial #forever #grand

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#bright future #children #community #ensuring #families

I give the children education. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#education #give #i

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#child #consults #does #flatters #forward

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#bored #boring #children #i #i always

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless. ↗

— Julia Child

#banking #careers #children #except #few

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times. ↗

— Allen Klein

#difficult #even #gifts #most #remind

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#childhood #everyday #everyday life #i #just

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population. ↗

— Wendy Craig

#being #children #classroom #every #four