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It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.
There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.
If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.
... if they [your children] write their names in the dust on the furniture, don't let them put the year.
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.
However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.
My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.
We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.
Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.
The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.
I like to work with children because their way of reacting to the world is simple, and they are innocent.
I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband.
A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.
I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.
What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child
As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.
Loving fathers give their children boundaries so they won't get hurt and can live with peace and purpose.
No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.
I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.
I think all mothers are a nightmare - i don't think you can have children and not lose your goddamn mind.
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.
It is only grown-ups who want children to be children; children themselves always want to be real people.
Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.
Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!
I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.