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I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.
I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.
When you borrow you plan to pay back. We're stealing from our children - so many people have no intention of paying back.
The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play
Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.
Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.
My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.
I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.
The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children.
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.
I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that.
Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.
My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.
See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.
Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.
For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.
That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.
The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential
We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.
As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.
The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?
I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.
Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.
Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.
If humanity is to live in the future in a socially right way, humanity must educate its children in a socially right way.
Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.
It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.
I've chosen never to go on welfare. I feel as though it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my children.
In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.
Alix [ MacKenzie] had stopped teaching because we had a child and she stayed home to take care of the baby, and I taught.
The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.
I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.
It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your "reporting" that you do.
The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.
I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.