The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.
I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.
African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.
I didn't plan on either children or writing. Once I realized that writing satisfied me in some enormous way, I had to make adjustments. The writing was always marginal in terms of time when the children were small. But it was major in terms of my hea...
Sir Ken Robinson’s 2008 talk on educational reform—entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”—has now been viewed more than 4 million times. In it Robinson cites the fact that children’s scores on standard tests of creativity decline as they ...
The stories in this book link an ancient story with the children's stories. Rather than medical case reports based on certainty of what scientists currently understand, they are simply an attempt to be faithful to what I have heard. In this sense, th...
Bathe other people's children but don't wash behind their ears.
Children who get everything they ask for seldom succeed in life.
You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
There are old men of three years old and children of a hundred.
I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where children are taught ha...
It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Our Barbie-doll president, with his Barbie-doll wife and his boxful of Ba...
I am a citizen of this country,” I declare, “and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when I put my shoes under my bed. The courageous men, women and children who are with me (blocked from crossing the bridge into NYC) are also cit...
I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed ...
But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.
A song for you A song for me Is how we relate our life to be
If you want to make amends for the life you have led then start now.
I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
