Being a parent wasn’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Celebrate your child’s achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don’t worry that you’re throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they...

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don’t feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again.Her bad heart, I noticed,...

Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits,...

She can look at you and make you feel like you’re the only one in the world. Even if it’s not true, she can make you feel that way. And with her child, it would...

Even though our journey as parents of a medically fragile child began with emotional turmoil, it has since become a purposeful odyssey that brings meaning and depth to our lives. This is the road we...

I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter...

Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.

One’s past can’t be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

It’s very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and also it was a joy and I felt it was in the best...

I can’t escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where...

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

I see the love in my child’s eyes when he sees me, and I know it’s gigantic. As an older person, I’ve been in love before, and I’ve loved, but this is really an immense,...

God is in control of all events and is able to protect and provide for you His child.

When you start listening to side talks, you begin to behave like a child, and you must kill the child to sustain the man, the man is always overlooking and philosophical.

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest...

Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption … without the paperwork.

You see yourself as if old and wise.I see you really miss your childhood.

If you want to fly you need to grow up, to grow up you need to be a kid again. To be a kid again you have to just be yourself; so come out of...

Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

The world has a very serious problem, my friend’ Shiva went on. ‘Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich — like me — live in post-scarcity society, while a billion...

The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary...

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father’s hand and your mother’s lap.

My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford – “”I am NOT naming our child Buford…

This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn’t the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.

No decent man would ever strike a woman or a child.

I was a good liar as a child.

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn’t believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone’s Christmas.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after...

The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person.

When you make a child happy, the best gift you will ever get will be the smile of that child!

If you are waiting to gain power to do something; then there is no difference between you and an unborn child.

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

Oh, my goodness, when you’re a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and – or Down’s Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there’s a bit of a shock you’re going to...

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It’s so funny. What is that? I don’t even know. But I loved it.

I came because I’ve spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it’s too late, before we’re...

When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring...

No parent should have to bury a child … No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to bury sons. It is not in the natural order of things.I buried my...

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.