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Children Quotes by Joyce Maynard
- It's not only children who grow. Parents do too...
- I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty…
- It's sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery…
- Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead...…
- Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.
- Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.
- It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are…
- Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson