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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.
Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.
I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.
And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.
I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects.
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.
Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.
Have unconditional love to your children no matter what happens. Give them time even in the midst of this busy life - be one on one with them.
My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.
When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.
Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.
I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.
Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.
When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.
This, my children," Alistair said proudly, "was barbecue pork." Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. "Been out in the sun for a long time.
As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.
I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.
If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either.
Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.
This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.
Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.
When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.
When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.
America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.
Success will be when every child in the world has access to a service like Childline and knows that someone who cares is just a phone call away
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.
When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.
I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.
Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.
Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.
We try to use our experiences as leverage for our social work, to help children to get education because that is the way to get a special life.
Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.