Quotes about child
children taken mean
Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. Nina Bawden
children book writing
I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
children should-have people
I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money, Nigella Lawson
children thinking people
I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.
children dozen may
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? Nikita Khrushchev
children perfect wife
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect. Nicolas Chamfort
children memories past
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
children father empowering
My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children. Nicolas Cage
children people superhero
As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me.
children giving tradition
Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.
children importance
Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?
children thinking imagination
Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.
children real believe
People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you.
children world way
I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.
children lying believe
In life, if you don't know the truth, then you can't be free, because then you'll believe that the lies are the truth. But once we realize that when we read the Word of God, and you know the truth of who you are, then I'm not a man without arms and legs. I am a child of God. Nick Vujicic
children writing careers
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. Nick Flynn
children responsibility growth
Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today. Nick Clegg
children successful parent
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis. Nora Ephron
children health important
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
children two remember
I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.
children obligation understood
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
children believe people
People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people. Nora Roberts
children home giving
Because you’re the one. Because I’ve never felt for anyone what I feel for you. I want a lifetime with you, Abigail. I want a home with you, family with you. I want to make children with you, raise them with you. If you truly don’t want any of that with me, I’ll give you the best I’ve got, and hope you change your mind. I just need you to tell me you don’t want it.
children eye reality
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life. Nikos Kazantzakis
children flower long
As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.
children responsibility imagination
Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility. Nicole Ari Parker
children self-esteem sleep
Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.
children actors
Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.
children heart discipline
Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.
children grandma fate
And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before that his friends wil die, and the friends of his friends, and, as time passes, the children of his friends, and, if his fate is truly bitter, his own children. (58) Nicole Krauss
children world unforgettable-moments
It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.
children father mean
Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.
childhood domestic-violence wrecks
...after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?