Quotes about children
children book writing
There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books. Richard Scarry
children book artist
Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.
children helping language
It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.
children writing views
Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view. Richard Russo
children men parent
Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.
children believe president
It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President! Richard Gere
children kids personality
I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality. Rich Little
children lost-love discipline
There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline. Ricardo Montalban
children parent violence
Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children. Rich Lowry
children character writing
I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment. Rebecca Wells
children father condolences
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. Red Auerbach
children ghost-stories stories
As a child I loved ghost stories. Rebecca Hall
children thinking people
The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect. Rebel Wilson
children kids theatre
I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it. Robert Crumb
children culture yeah
Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.
children believe abortion
A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust. Robert Casey
children mean parenting
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
children dad father
I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through. Robert Carlyle
children cities doubt
Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that.
children levels reason
A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.
children kids names
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant. River Phoenix
children laughing long
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well. Roald Dahl
children parent faults
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
children writing long
You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.
children grandmother times-like-these
I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said. "Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." It was at times like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.
children risk looks
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
children book writing
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
children thinking imagination
(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand A fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think -he only sees!
children delight mirth
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.
children age remember
I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.
children book has-beens
Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.
children giving lord
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
children swim young
All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.