Never tell a child that something it's too hard
My son's dad is committed, and involved, and amazing. We're actually really good friends. But I think it's dangerous to speak negatively to the child about your ex or the absent parent, because, believe it or not, they learn very quickly who the other parent is. And it's important that they develop their own attitudes and opinions about that other parent based on their experiences, not based on what someone has said about them.
The parent must not give in to his desire to try to create the child he would like to have, but rather help the child to develop--in his own good time--to the fullest, into what he wishes to be and can be, in line with his natural endowment and as the consequence of his unique life in history.
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth.
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.
Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.
If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,. . . will it not be worth. . . giving all for that?
Yet earth has never child she may not slay, Nor sea a lover that she cannot kill.
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child. ' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.
Music is always my great escape. . . I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.
A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six long finished with childbearing, although every day that I grow older I realize there is never anything unremarkable about losing any part of what makes you female - a breast, a womb, a child, a man.
Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.
If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.