C. S. Lewis Quotes
Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.
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We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
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“You must not be greatly troubled about many things, but you should care for the main thing — preparing yourself for death.”
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It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.
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I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.
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Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
