Quotes of: Autistic-children Keyword

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.

Neverland

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.

An Object of Beauty

Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.

Letters: Shamcher Beorse and Carol Sill, 1974-1977

Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.

Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books

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.

Life and Fate

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.

The Lost Herondale

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.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

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.

The Last Lecture

Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.

The Lost Art of Mixing

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

The Little Silkworm

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Little Women

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.

Less Than Zero

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children

In the blink of an eye, the fairytales told to children were as real as death and taxes. Vampires, shifters, trolls, demons and creatures of myth, were as real as the air we breathe.

Macabre

Males lack the seriousness of temperament required of persons with such great responsibilities.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.

The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

Midnight's Children

I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them. That isn’t my story.

Sun Shine Down: A Memoir