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Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.
Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.
Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.
When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others with love.
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.
No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.
The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.
I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.
Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.
I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.
Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."
Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.
I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.
My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.
To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a child.
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.
I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen. It helps me write.
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.
China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.
Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".
A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.
A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.
The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then I suddenly realized I did.
Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn.
You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.
I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.
Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.
The word of God is very important to Christmas. For unto us a child was born, and we should be reminded of how Christ's amazing journey came to be.
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.