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As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.
It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.
I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.
Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me? Kagome: I guess so. Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child.
At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
Unless you're really going to have a serious relationship, don't bring your kids into it. Don't show your child that people come and go.
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done.
Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.
We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.
My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
I think that me now, I wouldn't take a 16-year-old seriously in any capacity. "You're a kid, why would I listen to you? You're a child."
I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money.
Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.
Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!
Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
When you have children, you start to play with them and you mirror yourself. You see your parents in yourself. It's all about mirroring.
Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.
I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.
Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.
I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
You have to tap into the child in you. If you can get to that innocent place, then you're golden. That was the subconscious goal for me.
ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe.
[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.
My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.