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God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.
We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.
Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.
Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.
I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?
Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.
Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.
I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.
One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.
I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.
She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.
Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe.
I always wanted to have children - if it had been up to me, I would have had eleven. It was my husband who wanted only two.
Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.
For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.
We must have the attitude that every child in America - regardless of where they're raised or how they're born - can learn.
It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.
I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
Sun lighting a child's hair. A friend's embrace. Slow dancing in a safe and quiet place. The pleasures of an ordinary life.
Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card.
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
When you feel small and weak, remind yourself that you are a child of the universe who is connected to the infinite source.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.
Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?
You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.
Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.
What happened in Flint is immoral. The children of Flint are just as precious as the children of any other part of America.
But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children.
Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.
Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.