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Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.
My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.
What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them.
Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them?
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.
Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.
The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.
Tis I whom children love the best; / My wealth is all for them; / For them is set each glossy cup / Upon each sturdy stem.
What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.
The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.
Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.
I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance... but most of all I want a future for our children.
When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.
We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.
I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.
Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÂ’s hands.
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 doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.
Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.
Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.
When did you ever hear of a child not in need? 'Oh that's enough jam tart for me, I'll just go now and clean the toilets.'
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.
The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.
So, the advice that I would always give is make sure you've got your own career, before you put your child in the business.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.
I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.
Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.
I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.