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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
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very little patience with children.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old men are children for the second time.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it's really slim pickin's out there. There's a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If children are given some real content, they can feel powerful with their own understanding of it. I think a movie like 'Indian in the Cupboard' will instruct them how to proceed as people. They can think about whether they would have done something the way a character did, how they would have felt about an event in the story.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty hard times themselves.
- Height
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- Nov 07, 2020
The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.
- Nov 07, 2020