Quotes about child
children skins wonder
When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child. Georgina Chapman
children children-love
I love children. I've always loved children. Georgina Chapman
children quality care
There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care. Harriet Harman
children grandfather vision
When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good. Harri Holkeri
children years mistress
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress Harriet Ann Jacobs
children father lying
I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach; presumptuous in him, and dangerous to the masters. Harriet Ann Jacobs
children slave-girl waiting
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel. Harriet Ann Jacobs
children democracy littles
Your little child is the only true democrat. Harriet Beecher Stowe
children growing-up grows
Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that. Harriet Beecher Stowe
children parent fairy
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings. Harriet Beecher Stowe
children writing humanity
I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent. Harriet Beecher Stowe
children war parent
Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves. Harper Lee
children might
I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children. Harper Lee
children aunt missing
Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is. Harper Lee
children character animal
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. ~To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus Harper Lee
children tkam attention
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. Harper Lee
children tkam adults
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. Harper Lee
children tkam answers
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. Harper Lee
children people trying
I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money. Haley Joel Osment
children fall water
The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children. Halldor Laxness
children sunshine thinking
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that might pursue him. As a child he had stood by the seashore at Ljósavík and watched the waves soughing in and out, but now he was heading away from the sea. "Think of me when you are in glorious sunshine." Soon the sun of the day of resurrection will shine on the bright paths where she awaits her poet. And beauty shall reign alone. Halldor Laxness
children self-esteem raised
Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child. Halle Berry
children father opportunity
I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity. Gregory Peck
children hands inspire
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child Gregory David Roberts
children men giving
You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return. Gregory David Roberts
children wicked green
Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child. Gregory Maguire
children parent generations
Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away. Gregory Maguire
children mirrors light
The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason. Gregory Maguire
children humility world
Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being. Gregory Maguire
children silly animal
Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do. Gregory Maguire
children dad father
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be. Homer
children eight wife
It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day. Homer
children two small-child
I travel all the time, and I have two small children. Hope Davis