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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.
Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!
Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.
A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.
I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.
I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.
Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.
Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.
At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.
As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.
All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.
Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear.
I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.
Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God.
I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.
The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive
Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.
Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.
There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.
But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses
The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.
My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...
Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children.
The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, in the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.
I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.
I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.
The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.
Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.