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A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable.
There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.
We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.
the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.
In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.
The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.
The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.
One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.
People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.
It seems better to me for a child to have these skills and never use them, than not have them and one day need them," she said.
All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.
When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.
Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.
The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'
As a child, I use to act with my sisters at home, we created our own scenarios and acted them out, we had great fun doing that.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them
I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
I've been so lucky to have my mum and dad because they've worked to give my brother and I everything. We're not spoilt children.
It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.
Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.
I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.
As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.
The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting.
As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.
When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.
We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.
I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.