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When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.
The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
All the rich families who used to own all the British estates have gone bust because their children have blown their money.
the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.
We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
You dont have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.
I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.
Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.
Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.
I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.
I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.
Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.
Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.
To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?
Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.
Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.
There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me.
What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.
A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.
I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone.
First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.
The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
I was born in the Midwest, where "salad" was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways.