Quotes 141 till 160 of 499.
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Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.
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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
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He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
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How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
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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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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
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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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