Children Quotes
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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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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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It was epic. The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them just look like droopy-eyed armless children.
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Children who know that they have something to offer others will learn that they can shape the world around them for the better.
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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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Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
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If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.
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Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".
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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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It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
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For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
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Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
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The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
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For all children, mothers are their first love, their first acquaintance with intimacy, touch, warmth, tenderness, sustenance. Infancy is a conspiracy between mothers and their babies, a bond that fathers can only helplessly witness, denied the profound pleasure and pain of giving birth.
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When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.
