Children Quotes - Page 526

Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction.

Simple, practical, brilliant. What a wonderful world it will be when all families give their children the gifts presented in Dr. Reznick’s book. Joy, success . . . and health and happiness are just around the corner!

On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child, an old Gene Pitney record. A parade of trivia with no place to go. Things that bump around in our consciousness for two or three days then go back to wherever they came from... to darkness. We've got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth.

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

She was married for seven years to a concrete castle king. She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing. So I'd show up about once a week in my faded tight-legged jeans with a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams.

I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be able to help but I don't see this as the opportunity, having done 'Extraordinary measures', for me to suddenly leap on a soap box and begin to talk about the pharmaceutical industry or the desperate plight of sick children. I do what I can in my world but I don't have the bona fides to do that right now.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.