As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

Remember, it’s still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you’d have nothing to look forward to.

You see, there was this man, and he was a good man; he worked hard and did everything to the best of his ability. All he desired was for the most beautiful woman in the...

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child – one who sometimes asks me for stories of...

He tossed a word like a ball, never letting it fall. Instead it swam in the air, without care, strung together with an art that came straight from his heart.

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If...

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

I’m just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child’s situation.

What happens when you’re a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You’re taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

God predetermined the destiny of my life, the moment I was conceived in my mothers womb. All the distractions of life, never prevented God to fulfill His purpose for my life.

As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn’t right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I’m not; I don’t want to be. It’s again about that playfulness. Being Turkey’s voice or representative is not playful, it’s...

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child’s pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, ‘You’ve got such a pretty face; why don’t you lose some weight?’ Over the years I’ve...

So while I drove my little and planned his fantasy night of how I was going to give Otter the key to my soul (his words, not mine), I silently panicked and wrote lines of...

I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.

The chains that keep you bound to the past are not the actions of another person. They are your own anger, stubbornness, lack of compassion, jealousy and blaming others for your choices. It is not...

I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was there. Sometimesit looked like me. At other times, I could see someone similar...

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to...

You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, ‘Stop being rude,’ ‘Stop shouting,’ ‘Stop jumping around on the furniture.’ But ‘Stop showing off’? That’s awful.

The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.

After all I’ve done for you’ has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone’s parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone’s child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called ‘Silver Snaffles’ that my mother gave away.

He’s a year shorter than me, but he’s a foot younger. I love him like the brother of an only child.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

I just couldn’t imagine hitting a child. But in ‘The Slap’ it’s an extreme situation. You have to ask yourself – would you step in if a child was out of control?

You are a child of mine,Born of my own design,And you bear the hard of life.No matter where you go,Oh, you will always know,That you’ve been made free in Christ,And you are a child of...

The more you try to impress, the more you become depressed, and the more they get tired of your coercion. It doesn’t make them love you, instead, they’ll see you as a little child, trying...

I really like to please people, and I think it’s a symptom of being an only child.

If you have a child, you’re improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse.

Childhood is either absurdly superficial or profoundly shitty. There’s no in-between. Anyone who reminisces about their happy childhood is delusional.

No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child

Every night I tell my children all of the things that I love about them. I tell them how proud I am of their accomplishments and how much better our lives have been since they...

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

I don’t really see myself as a socialite or as a ‘child of someone.’ I’d rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn’t heartless. She was only aware of things...

In China, you’ve got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you’ve got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

how many times have I told you…