My Children Quotes
Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill...a corrupter of youth no doubt.
Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.
I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.
Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.
I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.
The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.
To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.
Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.
The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.
Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.
There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.
The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.
The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child….
A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.
Give them a conscious understanding of how powerful and important and valuable and perfect they are.
The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.
Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
I was determined to make working with UNICEF not just something that I did on the trip but something I'd do for the rest of my life
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about your books than you do!
If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.
Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.
God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.
Everyone has a first love and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.
Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.
Every shoebox offers an opportunity to share the Good News of the Savior with a hurting child
A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.
Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty LOVE TANK.
She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed. - Kaia Skyhawk
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'.