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"Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
"What is impossible with man is child's play with God."
"Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration."
"Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India."
"Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith."
"India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it."
"Having a child is the polar opposite experience of the awards season experience. The awards-season experience requires you to be out in the community, in the heart of the community, at the nucleus of the film community in a really committed way for about a six-month period of time. Having a child requires you to nest, to be in your home, and to create and make your home and environment that is one that is potentially very welcoming and nurturing for a child."
"He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child."
"It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret."
"The Master has no mind of her own. She works with the mind of the people. She is good to people who are good. She is also good to people who aren't good. This is true goodness. She trusts people who are trustworthy. She also trusts people who aren't trustworthy. This is true trust. The Master's mind is like space. People don't understand her. They look to her and wait. She treats them like her own children."
"I would love to have children some day. I'd like little gay boys. That would be good."
"I’ve never dreamed of becoming a model. As a child I was bullied and insulted as ugly"
"I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way."
"I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents."
"You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu."
"I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life."
"the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused."
"I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas."
"Children are not a burden."
"Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life."
