Quotes 141 till 160 of 461.
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How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! -
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.
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I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.
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I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
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I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.
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I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
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I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
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I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
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I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
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