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If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.
If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.
You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.
Children are amazing. Believe in yourself and stay strong. And remember that there are people out there who can help you when things get tough.
I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.
I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless... but still chic!
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?
I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.
Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.
I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America.
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.
I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.
Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.
I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.
It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.
It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.
My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him.
When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.
I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.
Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.
I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.
To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.
Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid who watches tv.
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.
We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.
There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.
As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.
Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished.
When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.
If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?
I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.
Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.