Mind control is built in lies and manipulation of attachment needs.Valerie Sinason, from the Forward of the book

Love your kids and just be there for them. You don’t have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that’s too much. All they...

I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.

Children see magic because they look for it.

from a child in danger to a dangerous child

No, Miss Wright didn’t want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She’d expect that young man to...

I’ve developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse.

When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then ‘Star Wars’ came out, and I was completely out...

There’s nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

A thousand times today I’ve started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, “Can you tell me…? But then I’d look into the front seat, at my mother’s silent shaking, my father’s grim profile,...

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn’t a child anymore, I wasn’t really a woman yet, and they weren’t really writing scripts for that age.

A week is a long time in the life of a child.

I’m finally watching ‘Mad Men.’ As a child of the ’60s, I can’t believe how old everything looks! I am the age of baby Eugene.

Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.

Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to...

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom’s was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a...

I don’t know where to start,” one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can....

And now the bad Mommy was here – outside his window. With a little whimper, he ran back to the bed, jumped in, and pulled the covers over his head.Good Mommy was gone now…and bad...

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Mwachie mwanao urithi wa kutosha ili aweze kufanya kitu, lakini si urithi wa kutosha ili asiweze kufanya kitu.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

I’m not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I’m the only one who’s questioned about it.

Not only am I not my dad’s favorite child—I’m his only child.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it’s going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.

When you’re a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of specialness. But sooner or later the privileges are withdrawn, and all you’re left with is a stunned bitterness...

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the...

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

Genius is sorrow’s child.

More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities, because that’s why they get them.

The chances of a child coming through as I did… the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children of mine if they wanted to be in school plays and...

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can’t find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she’d say, when there are so many out there that need our help?

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

Whether I felt strong and courageous or not, I would now have to be for my baby boy.

When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby.

It’s terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It’s a miracle. I don’t understand it. I live it very intensely.

I was the problem and the solution.

It was a child’s awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.