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Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.
There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them.
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.
The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.
Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.
At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.
If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.
Squeezed for money, the affected households often need to lower the quality of their food, which then impacts the overall development of their children.
I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.
The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping; And every happy growing thing Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping.
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.
Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.
I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.
People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.
I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.
A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.
The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.
Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.
My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.
A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.
I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.
If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.
If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.
Even a child who's above average on self-control could improve their financial outcomes in mid-life if they improved their self-control skills early on.
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.
We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."
I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.
Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way.
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.
The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.
I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.
We're getting caught up with labels: "Nudity: bad." It's not about "nudity: bad." It's about gratuitous oversexualization of children; it's complicated.
The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.
It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.
Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.