Quotes of: Having-children Keyword

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

All Quiet on the Western Front

The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the pani...

The Age of Hope

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to Present

Everyone is moving at the same speed toward the future. But your children are moving at that same speed with their eyes closed. So you're the ones who've got to steer.

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children.

Home Care CEO: A Parent's Guide to Managing In-home Pediatric Nursing

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

Housekeeping

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them.

Holy Bible: King James Version

America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

I Am America

In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to take his place in that world when he is grown. He is getting is education.

I Learn from Children

The more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he will strive to recreate it, in building, in drawing, in words.

I Learn from Children

How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (break of contract).

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

I Am a Mother

Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.

If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

The Journey to the East

If we want to raise children who will remain faithful to Christ and His Church, they need to see fathers on their knees in prayer.

Journey to Heaven: A Road Map for Catholic Men

Some stories are rooted in adventure, some in strife. Others are born of the heart, and the horrors and the joys locked therein are often immeasurable, and make us truly wonder what became of those children we once were.

Kings of Colorado

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.

Rabbit, Run

... and you're the son of his youngest. He has no other children. Oh, your father's dead, by the way. Fell off a horse two years ago.' 'Good to know.

The Republic of Thieves

To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

Standing Tall: The Stories of Ten Hispanic Americans

It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time.

A Spot of Bother