#child

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#childlike #flight #giants #great #great man

I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries. ↗

— Willie Aames

#always #children #comfortable #figured #had

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. ↗

— William Adams

#children #christ #conscience #entreat #fatherless

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. ↗

— Jane Addams

#becomes #child #determined #future #hence

I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours. ↗

— Adele

#been #child #god #haunted #house

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon. ↗

— Adele

#child #delighted #direct #expecting #first

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed. ↗

— Alan Alda

#child #feel #had #i #kill

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #beautiful #children #design #dream

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#also #believed #children #desire #disappears

State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#assistance #children #educate #employment #federal