Quotes about child
children sibling single-child
Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have. Jeffrey Kluger
children drawing lines
She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines. Jeffrey Eugenides
children speak-english female
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. Jeffrey Eugenides
children world connections
It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about it as you grew up, and had to learn it again. Jeffrey Eugenides
children book writing
I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book. Jeff Kinney
children arrows devil
Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil. Jim Elliot
children rights punishment
Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings. Jim Gaffigan
children frustration married
I reached a point in my life where I didn't really like who I was.I was married to an amazing woman. I had children, and yet there was frustration. Jim Gaffigan
children party people
Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend. Jim Gaffigan
children sleep hair
I guess the reasons against having more children always seem uninspiring and superficial. What exactly am I missing out on? Money? A few more hours of sleep? A more peaceful meal? More hair? These are nothing compared to what I get from these five monsters who rule my life. Jim Gaffigan
children father my-children
I have more pictures of my children than my father ever looked at me, Jim Gaffigan
children stories tilt
Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts. Jim Bishop
children writing parent
I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through. Jill Hennessy
children silly kids
We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and signed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things. Jill McCorkle
children stories sensitive
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive. Jill Abramson
childhood
I had a relatively tumultuous childhood. Jesse Metcalfe
children father thinking
I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor. Jesse Metcalfe
children night people
Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . . Jesse Jackson
children school elderly
Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. Jesse Helms
children quality enough
While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough. Jesse Jackson
children firsts wealth
Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most. Jesse Jackson
children integrity men
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children. Jesse Jackson
children book reading
Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums. Jesse Jackson
childhood chinese firsts
I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood. Jennifer Lee
children plan-b plans
When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it. Jennifer Lopez
children artist differences
I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time I'd felt anything like that. I knew as an artist that it was going to make a huge difference in everything that I did. Jennifer Lopez
children nurses
Currently, there are 19 nurses who have children enrolled in the center.
children cricket greece money train
Cricket in Greece has prospects, but more money is needed, ... The children don't get to train very much. All they want to do is play a bit, nothing more.
children education help played ready role school
As I help my children get ready for a new school year, I often think about how education has played such an important role in my family. Mark Kennedy
children precious
And those children were so precious - and so good.
children david dwell fathers given land prince servant shall unto
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
children fifty hundred six whether
And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: / The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.
children families half rest ten tribe
And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.