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I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.
Children need systems that are inclusive and driven by them, systems that will enable them to respond to their feelings and needs at any time.
Ive been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.
I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.
The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.
One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.
Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts!
Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.
Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.
Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.
A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.
Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.
Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ
In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.
Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't know. It's infinitely rewarding.
If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?
One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.
Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.
Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.
On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally .
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.
We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Each girl is special-one of a kind-a child of God, and each must be taught to live his commandments in order to inherit his eternal blessings.
When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
A woman who repeatedly asks a man she knows to be gay when he's going to get married and have children is not trying to let sleeping dogs lie.
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.
I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.
Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?