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“I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.”

Writing Children Long Wanted Waiting Support Long Time Most Wanted

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.”

Men Children Dream Light Fighting Waiting Church Struggle Longing Profound Caught Rings Ice Pounds Bells Cream Traffic Veteran Ice Cream Junk Sirens Vendors Traffic Light Church Bells

Author:Jackson Browne

“When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.”

World Children Real Problem Happens Eye Waiting Nice Her Eyes Real Problems Gloss

Author:Eddie Vedder

“Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development”

Children Country Whole Lying Waiting Silence Millions Fields Development Weapons Obstacles Innocent Village Buried Livelihood Cultivation Reconstruction Landmines

Author:Kofi Annan

“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.”

Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga

“There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.”

Children Waiting Chance Lists Russia Uzbekistan Oncology

Author:Oksana Chusovitina

“The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.”

Thinking World Should May Children Waiting Interesting Education Politician Doctors Aim Train Interviews Surgery Anthology Something Interesting Stationary Aim Of Education

Author:John Mortimer

“The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.”

Children Waiting Fire Experience Get Back

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times.”

Children Made Waiting Prayer Special Mankind Direct Communicate Available Access All Time God Love Instant

Book:Touch the World Through Prayer

Source: Touch the World Through Prayer

“All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.”

Children Facts School Waiting Environment Genius Our Children Everyday Neighbor Your Children Unnoticed

Author:Peter Kline

“Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.”

Way Children Today Faces Mother Waiting Challenges Messages Fulfilled Mother And Child Challenges We Face

Author:Lee Jong-wook

“It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II].”

Thinking World Way Children War Next Found House Left Waiting Cities Europe Towns Tables Coffee Bread War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Port

Author:Golda Meir

“In some cultures they don't name their babies right away. They wait until they see how the child develops. Like in Dances with Wolves. Unfortunately, our kids' names would be less romantic and poetic. "This is my oldest boy, Falls off His Tricycle, his friend, Dribbles His Juice, and my beautiful daughter, Allergic to Nuts.”

Children Would Be Kids Beautiful Fall Culture Names Waiting Boys Baby Daughter Poetic Nuts Juice Allergic Dribble Beautiful Daughter Tricycles

Author:Paul Reiser

“Where refugees seek deliverance that never comesAnd the heart consumes itself as if it would live,Where children age before their timeAnd life wears down the edges of the mind,Where the old man sits with mind grown cold,While bones and sinew, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,Where fear companions each day's life,And Perfect Love seems long delayed.CHRISTMAS IS WAITING TO BE BORN:In you, in me, in all mankind.”

Ifs Men Mind Heart Children Long Seems Age Waiting Born Perfect Blood Mankind Cold Edges Bones Cells Each Day Companion Old Man Refugee Deliverance Delayed Perfect Love

Book:Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

Source: Howard Thurman: Essential Writings