It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. VIPessays now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Browse Topics:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the topics)
Letter "C" » Children
(Click a letter to view the topics)
«If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.»
Author: Abigail Van Buren
| About:
Children,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
ground, shouldered, shoulders, shoulder in
«If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.»
«If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.»
«If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work»
«If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.»
Author: William Bennett
(Author, Politician)
| About:
Character,
Children,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
admiration, admire, allegiance, forms, identify, identifying, The Forms, traits
«If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Children,
Family,
Parents
| Keywords:
babies, experimenting, ferociously, home in, lab, scratch, The Lab, warned
«If you and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.»
«If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.»
«If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Children,
Example
| Keywords:
object lesson
«If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
correction, corrections, dearer, untaught
Research our database of over 800,000 top-quality pre-written papers plus 15,000 biographies for only $9.95/month.
Instant Account Activation. Register Now.
Instant Account Activation. Register Now.