#child

What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other. Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959 ↗

— Ted Dekker

#death #following-christ #death

He turned one of his death rays into an ice cream maker, except he said I shouldn’t eat too much of it at once.” I nodded slowly. “Right,” I said. “That’s…sweet, I think. ↗

— Acacia Ackles

#odd-childhood #scott #strange-parents #villains #death

Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty. ↗

— Jenny Han

#childhood-memories #eight #memories #nostalgia #death

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#children #designer #emotion #feelings #karl-lagerfeld

My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air. ↗

— Dave Willis

#across #air #anything #children #creators

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little. ↗

— Estelle Getty

#child #i #i think #little #look

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. ↗

— Harry Edwards

#dream #kids #teach #dreams

She wished, as almost all kids wish at one point or another, that she could turn into a pterodactyl and fly away and never come back. ↗

— Gina Damico

#humor #pterodactyls #dreams

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. ↗