- American Families
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very important to put children in an environment where they can take things apart; where they can break things and then learn to fix them; where they can trust their hands and know their capacity to manipulate objects.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go to the depot here, now, and what will you see? A well-dressed colored lady, with her little children by her side, whom she has brought up intelligently and with refinement, as much so as white children, comes to the cars, and where is she shown to? Into the smoking car, where men are cursing, swearing, spitting on the floor.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The children in 'Nobody Knows' had a resonance with me. The children are projections of myself.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the Japanese family gets more and more atomized, grandparents don't live with the nuclear family, so parents of children can't consult with their own parents about how to raise their children and rely on that to help raise them.
- Different Approach
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Nobody Knows,' I consciously set out to make a fiction film, which is a different approach from 'Distance,' but I still applied a lot of the things I learned from making 'Distance': for example, how to use the camera in relation to the children and how to create the right atmosphere on set.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020