#child

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

Every man should see the birth of his children. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#children #every #every man #his #man

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer. ↗

— William Barclay

#any #believe #better #cause #child

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#attached #being #berlin #children #concerned

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#discovery #gain #having #how #love

A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#important #most #need #sense #worthiness

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 'worked' at anything besides raising her children. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#anything #besides #child #children #divorce

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#child #did #fulltime #i #novels

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#children #extent #fellow #his #must

I like throwing snowballs at small children. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#i #like #small #small children #throwing