I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.
I'm just hoping my children will get enough of a foundation to remember what it was like before technology, how good that feels. Because I remember.
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?
The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive.
I adore children, but I was never that interested in new born babies. It's a terrible thing to have to admit, and you're not supposed to think that way as a woman, but everyone promises it's different when you have your own. It wasn't for me, though.
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs.
THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.
We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Other species help children develop empathy.
Choosing between the 50 m and 100 m is like choosing between your children. I have favourites on different days.
It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.
I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.
When my children were young, one of the treats promised by their grandparents was a ride in Grandad's car.
I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.
With 'Hollow Circus,' I used a family story that haunted me as a kid, one of those anecdotes about a family member that would rarely be spoken of in front of the children.
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.
When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.
A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.
