I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do wit...
Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for ...
Your children will be like olive shoots around your table." -Psalm 128:3 Children are likened to olive plants. Olive plants, if not pruned and controlled, become a wild nuisance. On the other hand, small olive plants that are nurtured and trained in ...
Hoke Colburn: Oscar said you needin' somebody to drive for yo' family... now, what I'm 'on be doin'? Takin' your children to school, drivin' your wife to the beauty parlor? Boolie Werthan: I don't have any children. Don't have the time... Hoke Colbur...
Children are the reward of life.
Children need your LOVE especially when they don't deserve it
children need love most when they don't deserve it
America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.
Fairy tales don’t tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States.
Nobody told me about him [my grandfather], and he died when I was six, and yet within the last year or two, that strange Indian summer of remembrance that comes to us in the leisured times when the children have been born and we have time to think, h...
I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying.
I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.
My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.
I have a responsibility to my children to be fit and healthy.
Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
