Children Quotes
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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.
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One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way we think, and it will affect the way our children see the world.
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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
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In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?
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This Jubilee is a privileged moment for the Church to learn to choose only ‘what pleases God most.’ And what is it that ‘pleases God most’? To forgive his children, to have mercy on them, so that they too might forgive their brothers and sisters, and become shining like torches of God’s mercy in the world.
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There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
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[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?
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I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.
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I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.
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The good thing about my part in 'Harry Potter' was that I was pretty well disguised. When I was walking down the street, there was no real recognition factor. Parents would sometimes call their children to come say hello to Mad-Eye, and the kids wouldn't know what they were looking at.
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...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.
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Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents.
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That childhood passion and involvement and being really submerged in something, that's the kind of state I'm looking for all the time - and preserving that sense of magical possibility and wonder that children have. I think, for artists, if you can stay connected to that, then you are in a good place.
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All actors are naughty. We're all troublemakers - horrible, attention-seeking children. 'Me, me, look at me!'
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The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.
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All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.
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Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
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Having children really changes your priorities.
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'Oh, that’s childish,' says Nicholas in disgust.'Well, so what?' says Alec. 'We happen to be children.'
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I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.
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Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
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No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!
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Each time I spoke, I gained a little courage. It took a long while-but today I have more happiness than I ever dreamed possible. In rearing my own children, I have always taught them the lesson I had to learn from such bitter experience: No matter what happens, always be yourself!
