Alexander Mackendrick Quotes
Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.
Quotes to Explore
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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
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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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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.
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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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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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I like children - fried.
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I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
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No impetus created by any movement whatever can be immediately consumed, but if it finds an object which has a great resistance it consumes itself in a reflex movement.
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Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.
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Wizarding is technical to me. When you get something that adds up to more than the sum of its parts, that feeling is magic to me. That's a kind of alchemy.
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I thought it was very odd that I had a cross and that I was sticking it in a box saying terrible language. But I have to say that I did not understand.
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I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.
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Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.
