Quotes about children
children parenting giving
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. Denis Waitley
children years cities
Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now. Denis Waitley
children thinking world
I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated. Deidre Hall
children widows india
Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore. Deepa Mehta
children eight years
It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult. Deepa Mehta
children parent being-a-parent
I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect. Dee Snider
children writing feelings
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy. A lot of fiction comes out of a child's feeling of, "Hey, that's not fair." Deborah Eisenberg
children may moments
Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them. Deborah Norville
children responsibility land
All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land. Deborah Harkness
children two people
We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew. Deb Caletti
children animal raises
When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child. Deb Caletti
children holiday two
I've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday. Diego Luna
children real father
My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things, Diego Della Valle
children home citizens
Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world. Diego Della Valle
children father play
People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn't see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There's always a father who buys the computer and perhaps influences their vote. I won the people's vote. Diego Maradona
children father men
Though we cannot understand "the meaning of all things," we do "know that God loveth his children" because He has said, "Behold, this is my work and my glory-to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." Heavenly Father is able to accomplish these two great goals-the immortality and eternal life of man-because He is a God of creation and compassion. Creating and being compassionate are two objectives that contribute to our Heavenly Father's perfect happiness. Creating and being compassionate are two activities that we as His spirit children can and should emulate. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
children father teaching
To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character. As spirit children of our Heavenly Father, we do have the potential to incorporate Christlike attributes into our life and character. The Savior invites us to learn His gospel by living His teachings. To follow Him is to apply correct principles and then witness for ourselves the blessings that follow. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
children hate heart
This topic of judging others could actually be taught in a two-word sermon. When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it! It’s that simple. We simply have to stop judging others and replace judgmental thoughts and feelings with a heart full of love for God and His children. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
children selfish love-is
He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our resume but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
children joy promise
God offers to His children the promise of a glorious and infinite existence and has provided a way for us to progress in knowledge and glory until we receive a fulness of joy. He has promised us all that He has. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
children important resumes
We are important to Him not because of our resume, but because we are His children. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
children want matter
God sees you not only as a mortal being on a small planet who lives for a brief season—He sees you as His child. He sees you as the being you are capable and designed to become. He wants you to know that you matter to Him. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
children book drawing
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books. Dick Bruna
children book parent
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents! Dick Bruna
children government law
If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America. Dick Durbin
children moving air
He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time. Diana Gabaldon
children safe might
Lord that she might be safe. She and my children. Diana Gabaldon
children spring war
I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, I would walk through fire again. Diana Gabaldon
children care may
Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's only she's married me," he said, "though if ye care to call it an accident, ye may. Diana Gabaldon
children tired men
Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare children an I dinna like to flog men, and I've had to do both. I've two hundred English camped three miles away, and no idea what to do about them. I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm sore. If you've anything like womanly sympathy about ye, I could use a bit! Diana Gabaldon
children curves mirrors
When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang. Diana Gabaldon
children book interesting
But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great. Dennis Muren
children heart men
The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul. Dennis Kucinich