Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.
What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name
No body told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend.
I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.
Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.
I am many things. Stupid is not one of them. Your wrath is impressive for a mortal.
Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
What’s your name, then? ”Tessa looked at him in disbelief. “What’s my name?” “Don’t you know it?
To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.
When your child is looking up at you, and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.
My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.
You can’t change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future.
If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.
Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.
You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.
Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.
