Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy. . . . It has become more important to be a smart kid than a good kid or even a healthy kid.
Somebody bought me a Snuggie as a joke gift. Haha, the joke's on you, I enjoy it. I toss and turn at night, finally a blanket that's like, 'I'm going to keep you warm. ' It's like having a small child with polio keep you in a full nelson - the perfect pressure.
If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.
I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?
When a small child. . . I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.
A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.
You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.
Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem. . . Maybe.
Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at work--have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.
The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.
Who knew Demon Child would have such a normal name? I expected something exotic like Serena or Destiny or the Evil One That Comes in the Night to Make Us Chilly.
I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure. . . . . he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him. . . Few can lie to me. . . I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion.
For our children, you want them to build their own self-esteem and their own self-confidence. For your own child. You don't want it to come from somebody else because, if it does, that same person can take it away. You want them to learn the grind.
Great men have the nature of a child.
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.