Quotes of: Having-children Keyword

In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. "Pro-maternity" propaganda has rarely been so extreme. They must be joking, the modern equivalent of the double constr...

King Kong Theorie

I wonder of what you must daily endure in America, having no government to protect you, no one to tell you what to do. Is it true you're given no ration card, that you must find food for yourself? Is it true that you labor for no higher purpose than ...

The Orphan Master's Son

He that hath no children doth bring them up well.

English

A silly daughter teaches her mother how to bear children.

Ethiopian

Hold your children with your heart but teach them with your hands.

Russian

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

The Children of the Sky

But real life is not art.

The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

Jock Sturges

I talk to children like adults and to adults like children.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

You can only be twice someone’s age once.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

A belief is an uneducated guess.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Light in August

If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve

Piddly Poems for Children, v.2

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

Kate DiCamillo

That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

Nancy Jo Sales

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

Lee Majors

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

Lars von Trier

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

Maeve Binchy