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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
Truman Capote1924–1984Local Color (1950)
- Age
I’ve been married too many times. How terrible to change children’s affiliations, their affections — to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won’t be there next year.
Elizabeth Taylor1932–2011Elizabeth Taylor: An informal memoir (1965)
- Marriage
There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have for our children, for our families, for each other. The warmth of a small child’s embrace, that is true.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Sandy Hook Prayer Vigil (December 2012)
- Love
The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Interview with Margaret Truman, sitting in for host Edward R. Murrow, on Person to Person, CBS Television (May 27, 1955)
- Advice
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam1931–2015Philosophy & Social Action (2003)
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward VIII1894–1972Look magazine (5 March 1957).
- America
When a life is at stake and it’s your child, you become fearless in a lot of ways. I mean, you just become fanatic. Nothing ever gets done unless it’s done by a fanatic.
Martin Sheenborn 1940AARP magazine interview (2008)
- Courage
My only regret about having four children is that I didn’t have four more.
Martin Sheenborn 1940Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
On the day Billy was born, it was like walking through a mirror and everything was Technicolor. My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family it went into sudden widescreen.
Helena Bonham Carterborn 1966Guardian interview 3 Nov 2006
- Family
I don’t call her my middle child, I call her my center child, because the world revolves around her.
Bob Saget1956–2022Bob Saget: That Ain’t Right (2007)
- Comedy
When young children see someone who looks like them running for office, they see themselves and what they can be, unburdened by what has been.
Kamala Harrisborn 1964Twitter 2020; as quoted by Singh, Rishika “Coconuts for Kamala Harris: Why the Internet is memeing the US VP amid speculations of her candidacy”. The Indian Express. (2024-07-07).
- Politics
“Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIIn context
- Comedy
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter VIn context
- Family
- Forgiveness
In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Justice