The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude with regards children in the raw as a sort of raw material which we must handle.
...there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled against that paradigm...[Mr. Gregory's Mother]
We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply..
One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life. Memories and loves, children and families. Every moment of life, pressing in
Just because women can bear children doesn't mean they're unable to harbour the same sort of career ambitions as a man.
It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if they should see it they would admire it.
Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.
We seek out other people to fight off the loneliness but it's like we're children playing at pretend. We are alone in everything we do, Livy. Alone but not without company.
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.
Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.
He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves almost childlike in the power and simplicity of their thinking.
Remember, children, all the stories are true." Simon tried to wrap his head around the idea that there might, somewhere in Germany, be a large bean stalk with an angry giant at the top.
Why love has to intense? Women's love isn't. It is a male contribution to a relationship. What does a woman contribute? Children continuity- intentional immortality.
There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.
Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.
Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
