#child

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. ↗

#atomic bomb #bomb #children #indiscriminate #killing

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me. ↗

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#every #get #ground #her #jump

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#arrested #been #chance #child-like #cocoon

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#before #children #diarrhea #die #diseases

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#armed #bands #burning #central #children

A child can escape the shadows. ↗

— Steve Largent

#escape #shadows

I gave up my childhood for a career. ↗

— Brenda Lee

#childhood #gave #i #up

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#great #i #i think #love #marriage

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ↗