Quotes about children
children regret father
I choose faithfulness...Today I will keep my promises. My debtors will not regret their trust. My associates will not question my word. My wife will not question my love. And my children will never fear that they father will not come home. Max Lucado
children standards crosses
The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.
children faithful god-is-faithful
God is faithful even when his children are not.
children father fall
God has proven himself as a faithful father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children.
children single-mom light
When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.
children believe writing
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps? Mavis Gallant
children thinking intelligent
The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world. Maurice Saatchi
children writing decided
How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it Maurice Sendak
children book childhood
I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
children kids parent
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
children book writing
I don't know how to write a children's book.
children kids parent
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
children book thinking
I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.
children mickey emblems
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
children growing-up secret
If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
children healthy adults
To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
children believe long
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy. May Sarton
children musical-genius years
My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!
children clever believe
Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.' Max Hastings
children tree given
As a child I'd get given parts as a tree. Max Irons
children nice appreciate
It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan. Maureen O'Sullivan
children son giving
It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap." "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me a terrible grin. "I have to go give Rachel a quick bath. Feel free to make yourself some cocoa or whatever you like!" She stopped short of adding "...future child-bride of my only son. Maureen Johnson
children desert world
If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world. Matthew Simpson
children punishment broken
Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken Matthew Tobin Anderson
children home house
If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights; and our family-worship the most valuable of our family-comforts ... A church in the house will be a good legacy, nay, it will be a good inheritance, to be left to your children after you. Matthew Henry
children people baffled
I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves. Maya Rudolph
children night saturday
Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.
children love-you parent
The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.
children way natural
Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child. Mayim Bialik
children home artist
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now. Maya Lin
children only-child world
Because as an only child, you have your own little world. Maynard James Keenan
children thinking only-child
I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
children animal play
Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.