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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.
It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.
Jesus loves me! This I know As He loved so long ago Taking children on His knee Saying, Let them come to Me.
As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.
You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.
Doubt that there could ever be...a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.
There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.
It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.
When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.
Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.
As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.
I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.
Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.
Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend.
A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.
Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.
In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.
Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.
There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.
When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film
I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.
Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.