William Martin Quotes

You do not have to make your children into wonderful people. You just have to remind them that they are wonderful people. If you do this consistently from the day they are born they will believe it easily.

William Martin

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• Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Anxiety

• We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Children
  • Relationships

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Children
  • Real

• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Great
  • Children
  • Relationship

• An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Children
  • Education

• People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• I don't buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be able to travel with my children.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Children
  • Money
  • Travel

• Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Believe
  • Children
  • True

• Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Why
  • Parents

• I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

  

  Bruno Bauer
  • God
  • Important
  • Children

• I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Live
  • Children
  • Family

• I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Children

• It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • Country
  • Children

• Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Children
  • May
  • Alone

• Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

  

  Enid Blyton
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Art

• What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • Children
  • Today
  • Society

• Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Question
  • Right
  • Choose

• People in China criticized President Obama for chewing gum while entering the economic summit in Beijing. They're saying he looked like a rapper. Then again, to be fair, in China I look like a rapper.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • China
  • Beijing

• I's only the things you don't do that you end up regretting: the women not courted, the paintings not painted, the paths not taken.

  

  Ann Scott
  • Women
  • Paintings
  • Paths

• I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Journey
  • End

• And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Passion

• You do not have to make your children into wonderful people. You just have to remind them that they are wonderful people. If you do this consistently from the day they are born they will believe it easily.

  

  William Martin
  • Children
  • inspirational
  • Wonderful