We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda
When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.
To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.
one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.
Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.
We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
When your child is looking up at you, and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.
