Quotes about child
children actors
Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children. Nicole Ari Parker
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?
children mean parent
. . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child to live without you.
children pain struggle
~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~ Nicole Kidman
children cancer thinking
I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
children loss
The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
children writing thinking
I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a bit more ambitious, and think more about every word, because I know that they pay closer attention when they read than adults do. Neil Gaiman
children book reading
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like - the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian 'improving' literature - you'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and, worse, unpleasant.
children goal
It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal. Nastassja Kinski
children play people
It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
children born having-children
Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
children giving
You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
childhood becoming middle
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
children hands deficit
Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
children way clarity
Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.
children sacrifice careers
Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
children eggs perfect
Some perfect wife I am. I've been married four times, divorced four times, have no children, and can't boil an egg. Myrna Loy
children believe names
When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names. Myrtle Reed
children funny-marriage broken
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were. Mort Sahl
children bed force
You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work. Monica Potter
children opportunity creative
Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets. Miranda Richardson
children fun party
Imagine for a moment playing by children's rules. If you were at a party and saw someone you liked, you could just go and hold their hand. If they then try to kiss you and you don't like it, you can push them over. If your aunty gives you a Christmas present that you're not too keen on, you can throw it back in her face and burst into tears. You can gallop freely. You can skip. Children have got it right. The tragedy is, none of this is permissible as an adult. Although one thing surely is – and I'll bet you know what I'm going to say – that's right, the galloping. Such fun! Miranda Hart
children school government
When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. Michael Badnarik
children our-world civilization
The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction. Ravi Zacharias
children character doe
When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has chosen some to live and others to die on a whim; yet you say it is your moral right to choose whether the child within you should live or die. Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right.
children winter islands
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air. Ray Bradbury
children blow cards
I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.
children thinking wind
Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.
children space philosopher
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.