Quotes of: American-children Keyword

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

The Chronoliths

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids

[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

Children of the Mind

One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.

Clockwork Princess

How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?

The Child Thief

You two are perfect together. And one day . . . one day your children will change everything.

Dragon Actually

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

Dust to Dust

Such bliss is not meant to last. In my husband's house, my children were my real gifts.

A Disobedient Girl

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

The Day of the Triffids

I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.

Enduring Love

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

Escape

Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.

The Edible Woman

Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

Flowers in the Attic

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.

Freedom

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

The Glass Castle

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

Goodnight June

Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.

God in Your Morning

Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.

The Grapes of Wrath

Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.

Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation

Of course, some families cannot be saved and their children cannot be returned. Yet, even then, their love for each other must be worth something.

Hope's Boy

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

High-Rise