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Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.
Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.
It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didnt want to be oblivious to the obvious.
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
They want everything to be better for their children. I think athletes are starting to see that and that's why they're starting to speak out.
O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.
It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?
It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.
This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.
I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.
Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.
The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.
The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.
I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.
It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.
We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.
When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.
Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.
As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.
People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.
That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.
A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?
For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child's foot.