- Family
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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
- Club
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
- World
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.
- Nov 07, 2020
I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a parent, the most responsible thing I can do is get as much information about my children as possible so I can then think through how I can make them as healthy as possible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are used to dealing with risk. You are told if you smoke, you are at higher risk of lung cancer. And I think people are able to also understand, when they are told they are a carrier for a genetic disease, that is not a risk to them personally but something that they could pass on to children.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very important that children learn to use technology - it's part of life - but also that they learn when to put it down.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020