Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of pick-that-up and you’re-going-to-be-late, keepers of the diary of her duties and...

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us.

The partnership between nurses and families is based on mutual trust, and defining the boundaries and rules clearly will help everyone involved, especially your child.

The difference between a child’s aspiration and that family’s situation, is the exact measurement of that family’s frustrations.

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn’t raised that way, and I’m not going to raise a child to do that.

Wape watoto wako urithi wa kutosha ili waweze kufanya kitu, lakini si urithi wa kutosha ili wasiweze kufanya kitu. Wape watoto uhuru wanaostahili kupata, uhuru wa mahesabu, lakini si uhuru wa kila kitu.

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of...

I haven’t had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn’t hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in...

For Every Child We Teach To Cherish Learning, A Universe Is Born.

Maybe is the lovechild of No and Yes. We should make love. I’ll be the No, you’ll be the Yes, and maybe I won’t call the cops but will call you again sometime.

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don’t have to go on welfare.

All that evening Nell sat alone in her bedroom trembling with curious satisfaction. For punishment Eva had been sent to her room without supper and Nell sat listening now to the even, steady sobs far...

To hear my mother say, ‘Michael is dead,’ to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.

A child s a special possession from God.

An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.

…as we are endowed. …with rhetorics. …none will deny. …of innocence. …towards scribbling. …of love lines. …and of lust. …to what seems like male. …to what seems like female. …in those days. …I mean nothing....

Like young fern shootsmy child’s fingers curled.I did not expect,in the fifth month, frost.

Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures … in the eyes of...

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their...

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

The idea that because you’re born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you’re born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take...

Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid,gather a child to its mother.

Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]It’s meAnd who is the poet writing this poem?That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D’un enfant le sourire – Agrandit l’univers)

Children – if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children – children lie all the time.

feminine” just because they have their own likes and opinions on things? Things that really don’t matter?

In a toast, I’ll raise my glass like I’d raise a child—through orphanages.

Ok, I see. When they say Charles Wovenu is passing by, everyone wants to see Charles Wovenu. But when they say to a child that “Bibi” is passing by, every child is hiding for “Bibi”....

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

I’m only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

It.” Boy or girl, It is perfect.

I don’t want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don’t want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It’s about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow...

It’s very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something – like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child – and if you don’t follow...

This is why Alzheimer’s is such a terrible disease: the body of the person you love is there, but they’ve gone – your husband is gone – and they become your child, and you have...

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was ‘home.’

For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.

I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significance of body and morals. It was that love that was no more bad than...

Every person will become three time child in their life.One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third when they become grandparents.It’s never be gone.

To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If you have to talk to someone about a so-called complicated matter, see how...

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn’t sleep at night from anticipation.

But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near camp are dark and in the woods and we had to drive for...

Even before i had children, I knew that being a parent was going to be challenging as well as rewarding. But I didn’t really know.I didn’t know how exhausted it was possible to become, or...

I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that’s not true. My house was haunted, that wasn’t true. God, there’s been so many rumours.

Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.