Children Quotes
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I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
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We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.
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I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and love we were given as children.
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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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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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All children can do things to help, whether how big or small - by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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We all got older, and we'd tell our children things like, 'Mommy used to be in a famous rock band,' but they didn't believe us. Part of the reason for our reunion was to show our children what we did to make the lives they have possible.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
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Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
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They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.
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No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.
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Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
