What Children Want Quotes
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.
I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.
I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me down. Adults have let the world down.
I ask my children (all of them) to be what they want to be; just be the best they can at what they choose.
It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.
Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.
I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.
Children are paparazzi. They take your picture with their minds when you don't want them to see you at your worst. Trust me, they SEE and HEAR everything.
I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.
Most people don't want to leave their wife and children behind but many people seem to want to take leave of themselves.
When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.
If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?
You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?
I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'
Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.
Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.
You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.
I think that women are afraid to say they don't want children because they're going to get shunned.
I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.
Raising children made me determine what I stand for, what I believe in, and who I want to be because, ultimately, I'm who they'll look to as an example.
