Quotes of: Having-children Keyword

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

Tim Walberg

No children were harmed or neglected during the writing of this book.

Life

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

W.H. Auden

You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.

Pablo Casals

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

Phyllis Diller

Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.

Jane Chen

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

Jane Gardam

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

Keith Henson

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Malcolm de Chazal

I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. Nor do I think they should read only about things that they understan...

Chanticleer and the Fox

i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes ...

Conversations With Myself

WARMING UP TO the crèche turned out to be easy. Warming up to the other mothers there isn’t. I’m aware that Anglo-American-style instant bonding between women doesn’t happen in France. I’ve heard that female friendships here start out slowly...

French Children Don't Throw Food

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

Drawing from 1.7 million Gallup surveys collected between 2008 and 2012, researchers Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found that parents with children at home age fifteen or younger experience more highs, as well as more lows, than those without childre...

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The ultimate goal of marriage and family is the glory of God. Only when marriage and family exist for God's glory - and no...

Real Marriage: The Truth about Sex, Friendship & Life Together

If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We n...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can’t find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every single day. Do you not understand that children will hinge the...

Single Dad Laughing

Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new exce...

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult.And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil made cough syrup. Because, somehow, along the way, we forget that being alive and h...

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Yes, and our sister's sons are candid now about a creepy business which used to worry them a lot: They cannot find their mother or their father in their memories anywhere - not anywhere. The goat farmer, whose name is James Carmalt Adams, Jr., said t...

Slapstick or Lonesome No More!

Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale...

The Tales of Beedle the Bard