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For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way.
It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
Obamacare is making people divorce so they can afford it. And divorce hurts women and the children, and that is Obamacare and their War on Women.
Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.
Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.
I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.
I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.
The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.
These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.
If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.
I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.
I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?
Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
No. It is said that the Nephilim are the children of men and angels. All that this angelic heritage has given to us is a longer distance to fall.
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.
This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?
A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.
I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.
For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.
My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.
The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.
If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.
Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.
If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?
Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.
Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.
Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.
If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.