“Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.” ChildrenFourTearsHairHusbandSittingOur ChildrenTragicMy HusbandHomeworkBathing Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Before I was going to be an actress, I was going to be a veterinarian! I thought I was one as a child. I was the kid who was like, 'Daddy! I want a kitty! It needs a mommy!' And my dad was such a sucker. Every time I would beg, with tears flying down my face, about how this animal needs love, needs a home. He would cave.” WantNeedsChildrenHomeKidsFacesAnimalTearsDadMy DadActressesFlyingCavesDaddySuckerKittiesNeed LoveVeterinarian Author:AnnaLynne McCord
“There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.” NeedsChildrenEnoughNamesTearsAddEntertainment Author:Bruce Forsyth
“Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.” ChildrenStoriesEyePassionParentTearsRevolutionListeningTalesPityShakesShamefulAmerican RevolutionBoilingGlisten Author:John Hancock
“So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.” ChildrenStreetsTearsTheeLengthSighOrphanOxfordStepmothersOxford Street Author:Thomas de Quincey
“Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to pay for having once had held against my lip life's brimming cup of hydromel and rue--for having once known woman's holy love and a child's kiss, and for a little space been boon companion to the Day and Night, Fed on the odors of the summer dawn, and folded in the beauty of the stars. Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, and serve the potter as he turns his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!” LifeChildrenLittlesNightTurnsStarsSpacePayKnownLordDarknessChangedTearsHolyKissingSummerLipsDearDustCupsTheeDawnWheelsFedsCompanionOblivionClayPottersHere And ThereGraciousDay And NightOdorBoonRueDear Lord Book:The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems Source: The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems
“I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.” ChildrenHelpingMightEyeAbleFeltParentDyingTearsInvolved Author:C. Everett Koop