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«What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them»
«When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.»
«What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.»
Author: Benjamin Spock
(Author, Pediatrician)
| About:
Children,
Parents
| Keywords:
fathers, instinctively
«What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp»
«When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.»
Author: Horace Mann
| About:
Children,
Tears
| Keywords:
chastisement, chastisements, flow from, nestle, nestled, nestling, repentance
«When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people.»
«What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.»
«When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| About:
Animals,
Children,
Death and dying,
Possibility
| Keywords:
kid, killed, movie, Western, westerns, wondered
«When I bring you colored toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
clouds, colored, colors, flower child, painted, tint, tinted, tints, toys
«When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
box, box up, eventually, kid, sand
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