#child

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#aunt #childless #children #friends #i

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#best way #children #distresses #insist #lives

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#almost #author #bad #books #children

I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#children #dreams #help #i #realize

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#children #drive #gives #narrative #sense

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing. ↗

— Jourdan Dunn

#child #conditional love #love #truly #unconditional

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game. ↗

— George Eads

#been #body #child #dead #fights

Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality can lead to a Happily Ever After. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper “One more time” in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality. ↗

— L.R. Knost

#fairy-tales #literacy #dreams

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism. ↗

— Andy Dick

#defense #defense mechanism #i #i see #i think

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#children #clap #end #me #most