My Children Quotes
And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?
Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?
Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.
within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.
Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...
Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about.""Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.
Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.
One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child.
Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children
Very young children often accept the paranormal as “normal” until adults squeeze it out them.
Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.
What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.
Too bad, Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me.Not for a few decades, not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one.
Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.
I'm afraid of those cows, ' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows, ' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.
The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.
Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")
How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?
It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time.
...Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them
One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.
The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.
The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
I have long held that there are two fundamental views of children: That they are pets who can talk, or that they are small people who do not yet know very much. The wrong one is winning.
The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.
If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.
Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.
Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.
I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born.
Independance grows out of a child's faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.
Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.
Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the list. Rather, it might have looked something like this:1. H
It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance.
Always believe in good and happiness. Never except "I can't" Always say I can..
Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say.
When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.
I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me. I wanted everything for you, son.I still do.
The dream too thinks twice, gets filtered to go softto be seated on children's eyes.
Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind.