Pastoral Resources

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Because I had children relatively late - in my 40s rather than in my 20s - it wasn't anything I ever knew that I would do. It kind of happened to me: I met the right woman and we had children. It was a revelation because it suddenly makes me realize, 'Oh, I get it. Now I know what to do with the rest of my life.'

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Books, the children of the brain.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.