Children Quotes - Page 640

I kind of forgot about the inner child in me that loved the old horror movies.

If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.

I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years. Roald Dahl

We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children.

I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.

While the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families, that will change under a Satorum Administration. I will ban all pornography. Especially gay pornography. Gay pornography is the reason people choose the gay lifestyle or what I call the deathstyle. If we got rid of that, homosexuality would be gone within a matter of months. This is one of only a few things I see eye to eye on with the Taliban.

We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.