We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.
When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.
As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition.
I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.
You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.
I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
