Edmund de Waal Quotes
And rather impressive – I want to be bourgeois and ask how you find time for five children, a husband and a lover?
Quotes to Explore
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Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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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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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
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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.
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Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
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When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.
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I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
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Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
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I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?
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Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that this was the only time I would write about these characters. I felt it gave me an added incentive to do my best by them, to tell readers everything I knew, to hold nothing back.
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We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.
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Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.
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And rather impressive – I want to be bourgeois and ask how you find time for five children, a husband and a lover?
