- 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
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.
- Walk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
- Glad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am glad that I do not have any children.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I discovered that I was a lot more flexible than I thought.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.
- Car Accident
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, as the youngest of four children and the only girl. My father died when I was only a year and a half. He was killed in a car accident when he was 26.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side of the road and then grew that into a multimillion-dollar business - a retail store selling mostly furniture and appliances.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020