#child

... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. [p. 13] ↗

— Shirley Hazzard

#imagination

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#imagination

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#obligation #privileged #right

I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book. ↗

— Chris Raschka

#children-s-book #children-s-literature #illustration #inspiration #kid-s-book

The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#children-s-reminiscences #inspirational #inspirational

He's a unique dog, Mr. Bell had said. There is no other in the world that looks or acts just like him. ↗

— Martha McKiever

#dog-adoption #friends #inspirational #therapy-dogs #inspirational

Every time I watch a movie with great special effects I think, ‘Wow. This is so much more lifelike than anything I’ve ever seen.’ The world needs to get with reality and use more computer generated images for our sunrises and landscapes. Or at least Claymation for snow days. Making inanimate snowmen isn’t helping our children make the right kinds of friends: they need to learn the hard way that all their attachments will melt away, that everyone must face life alone. ↗

— Bauvard

#friendship #reality #snowmen #special-effects #friendship

I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#encouragement #friendship #good-fortune #heroes #interaction

Many Survivors blame themselves for the abuse and continue to feel responsible and guilty for anything bad that happens to them or to other people they know. Survivors often feel bad about themselves and different from other people. They therefore isolate themselves from other people and avoid making close friendships. ↗

— Carolyn Ainscough

#child-abuse #isolation #rape #sexual-abuse #survivors

The way I wrestle five-year-olds makes me think if I were ever attacked by a pack of midgets, I’d be OK.
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— Jarod Kintz

#attacked #children #funny #humor #kids