Quotes of: Having-children Keyword

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

To the Lighthouse

The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush...

Life of Pi

Teach children the value of work and to work hard at everything they do. The virtue of compassion and value of appreciation of the hard work of others too.

Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

More Than Words: Volume 3

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.

A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children

What should I get from books?” Alcide asked in French. That you are not alone — even along this broken tractor road. You need to know nothing else,” my father answered in French.

Mercy Among the Children

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

A Mom After God's Own Heart: 10 Ways to Love Your Children

The reason any person yaks excessively is because his communication is not being adequately acknowledged. He just keeps trying to be heard.

Miracles for Breakfast: A Startling New Approach to Raising Children

I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.

Mother Courage and Her Children

Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

You Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty." "Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm replied

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Educating hearts precedes educating minds.Investment in children precedes investment in the future.” – Fida Qutob. 'Despite of our different languages ,countries & religions ,we all share the same humanity'.-Fida Qutob

Sarah in the City of Moon

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very qui...

The Storyteller

Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them. [...] Ronan was mine but he never belonged to me. This is not an issue of ownership. A child is not a couch.

The Still Point of the Turning World

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the empowerment to create a life they love, filled with purposeful, enjoyable work, and relationships they hold dear.

The Parents' Guide to Raising CEO Kids

Linda's presentation of the 'facts' had been so gruesome that the children left Alconleigh howling dismally, their nerves permanently impaired, their future chances of a sane and happy sex life much reduced.

The Pursuit of Love

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica