Quotes about children
children giving-up fun
Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic. Amy Chua
children passion thinking
There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.
children self-esteem thinking
I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.
children thinking littles
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
children parent kind
Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?
children self discipline
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
children parent lord
Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.
children want knows
We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.
children believe passion
Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a nurturing environment. By contrast, the Chinese believe that the best way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future, letting them see what they’re capable of, and arming them with skills, work habits, and inner confidence that no one can ever take away.
children home equality
marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World. Alva Myrdal
children love-you unconditional-love
It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely. Anne Parillaud
children writing people
Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it. Anne Roiphe
children parent way
One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.
children doctors people
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
children eight piano
The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died. Anne Sexton
children thinking hair
The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.
children heart sleep
the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.
children growing-up flower
I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs....
children maturity motorcycle
Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle....
children lying poetry
Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?
children heart i-love-him
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes? Anne Rice
children believe vampire
Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
children home devil
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
children sight vampire
A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.
children sacrifice motherhood
Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters "woman's peculiar sphere," her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives. Anna Garlin Spencer
children italian years
And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.
children ignorance growth
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
children glad
I am glad that I do not have any children. Anna Freud
children getting-lost blame
Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
children men vanity
Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it. Anna Friel
children worry wish
I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older.
children years want
I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
children believe past
Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of mental crack-up. Yes, if we were childish in the past, I wish we could be children once again. Anita Loos