Children Quotes - Page 505

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.

My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

There's no harm in a child crying: the harm is done only if his cries aren't answered. ...If you ignore a baby's signal for help, you don't teach him ndependence... What you teach him is that no other human being will take care of his needs

More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.

Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12 million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it.

Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Where I did feel a difference is learning to just work in a different way so that your resources are not completely depleted so that you don't have anything to give to your child when you go home, and fortunately I've been working long enough that I know how to make that shift so that I don't compromise my work or compromise my relationships; not compromising parenting is really the biggest difference.