I walk the beach to smile at other people and their busy children, trying to find another way to save the world.
Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.
My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.
People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.
After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.
When I talk to children, I show them a typical drawing I made when I was six and point out to them that when I was their age, I didn't draw any better than any of them.
Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.
I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.
For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
I am more relaxed at home in Scotland, and my children are of an age where I want us, as a family, to spend more time up here.
