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Children Quotes
Raising kids, and the duties that come with it.
Quotes about "children" here include a filmmaker recalling audience shock at a controversial early work, alongside pointed reminders that entertainment isn't a substitute for parenting at home. For prayer-focused content about children, see Prayers for children.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
- Nov 07, 2020
War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.
- Great Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason, I have always had a really good ability to write children in a way that's realistic but not annoying. The key to that is underwriting them: peel back the dialogue and keep it simple.
- Better Shape
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.
- Consternation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me - caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they're widely accepted as an essential part of the children's literary canon.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020