Children Quotes
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I'm ridiculously proud of my children. More so than any of my books. I suspect I wouldn't have written any of them if I hadn't been lucky enough to have this huge family.
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My biggest grouse since the time I filed for divorce has been that when all the drama unfolded, the children were made pawns. That should never be the case. You never know how it affects them.
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Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.
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Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the 'things' of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. 'We give our children guns and computer games,' Wendy said. 'They gave their children the land.'
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The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
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When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces, I just know they're about to jab me with something.
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All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.
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Kövecses radiated the sense of self-sufficiency that comes about when there are lots of children in a big house.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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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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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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What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
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If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.
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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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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
