- Parenting
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.
- Chipping
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- Nov 07, 2020
My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.
- Big Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first big impact that feminism in the 1960s and '70s had was a big divorce boom in the '70s and '80s. That, in part, had an impact on how the children of that divorce boom viewed marriage.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Citizens continue to demand government help in fighting cybercrime, defending children from stalkers and bullies, and protecting consumers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adult fiction and writing for children portions of my MFA program were kept very separate, and there was a stigma around those 'kid people.'
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is my greatest wish to teach children what I now believe: that writing is not a burden but a joy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the job of a children's author is to write books that will be remembered, definitely, but if I might go out on a limb, I will say that the other part, the more important part, is to build books that will help children fall in love with reading. That, to me, is the real job.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is something all writers, regardless of genre, are challenged to do, but it is in children's that the art of selection really becomes an art.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light children up, that children will recognize. Words that inspire and comfort. Words that challenge yet don't patronize. Words that, well, mean something to them.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
At its best, writing is a dialogue. It's one of the things I love about children's: the fact that this dialogue is really there from the get-go, from the start of writing.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get asked a lot what books I recommend for a nursery, home library, etc., and I always tell parents to start with what they loved as children, what they want to share, and broaden out from there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020