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It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.
Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.
I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.
If I ever have children of my own, they will read Matilda. They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see Matilda: The Musical.
But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.
Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.
Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.
The more you love your children, the more care you should take to neglect them occasionally. The web of affection can be drawn too tight.
I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.
I want our children in America to know the limits of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.
What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.
The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.
Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.
Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.
One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.
At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.
Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.
I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.
UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.
Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.
Man, in his sensitivity, does not give names to animals he intends to eat but goes on giving names to children he intends to send to war.