Quotes of: Having-children Keyword

We want our children to know and believe the one good story. Every other story is a copy or shadow of this one. Some copies of it are quite good and shout the Truth. Others see only the faintest whisper of it, or, in its absence remind us of the Trut...

Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done with you. You hear me? I want you to go back to your places now and stay with your children until I say you’re needed. “Tell your wive...

Hellraiser—Mother Jones: An Historical Novel

Dabbling in the sandbox gives Rabbit a small headache. Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of checkers call to his memory, and the forgotten smell of that narrow plastic ribbon you braid bracelets and whistlechains out of ...

Rabbit, Run

All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet curiosity by giving the answers, rather than b...

The Nature Of Natural History

Sometimes, she wondered what she was missing, if her life was somehow incomplete because she didn't see the reflection of her face in the face of a son or daughter. Maybe. That's what mothers told her: Oh, you don't know what you're missing; it's spi...

The Toughest Indian in the World

I remember looking out the window of the little maid's room where we had been installed, seeing the lights of the Palisades across the way, and thinking, There! There it is! There's New York, this wonderful city, I'll go live there someday. Even bein...

Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York

The borderline Queen experiences what therapists call "oral greediness". The desperate hunger of the borderline Queen is akin to the behavior of an infant who had gone too long between feelings. Starved, frustrated, and beyond the ability to calm of ...

Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship

That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is a matter of getting lost. The word ‘lost’ comes from the old Norse ‘los’ meaning the disbanding of an army…I worry now that people ...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.

Children of Dune

We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.

City of Heavenly Fire

The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.

Children of Fire

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

Children of God

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

The Chronoliths

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids

[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

Children of the Mind

One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.

Clockwork Princess

How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?

The Child Thief

You two are perfect together. And one day . . . one day your children will change everything.

Dragon Actually

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

Dust to Dust

Such bliss is not meant to last. In my husband's house, my children were my real gifts.

A Disobedient Girl

I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.

Enduring Love