#child

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#children #earth #last #ought #parents

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#deceived #grow #grow up #trauma #up

I had a happy childhood. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#had #happy #happy childhood #i

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic. “Well,” said Jack at last. “What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?” “Yes!” whispered all the children. “Let’s! ↗

— Enid Blyton

#children #island #lonely #mysterious #running-away

I give the children education. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#education #give #i

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#child #consults #does #flatters #forward

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#bored #boring #children #i #i always

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless. ↗

— Julia Child

#banking #careers #children #except #few

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#before #born #child #ignorant #occurred