I’m going to name my firstborn son 0123456789, because I want him to learn to count before he learns the alphabet. And my second son I’ll call 01, because I want him to get into...

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she’s raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn’t until...

As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother’s extremely banal taste.

With my child, I hardly watch TV now.

Children are sacred beings.

A Child raised in the Mud should never point an accusing finger at a Pig.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?

Laughing like crazythe child goes back to the citygives birth to monsterscreates earthquakeshairy women run nakedold folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even...

We need to empower every single child no matter who you are, no matter where you come from to have the best education and the best future.

Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood...

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

Although I have fantastic connections, I didn’t know as a child what feeling secure meant.

You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.

I used to go red when anybody spoke to me. It’s awful because you absolutely cannot control it. If you are a child that blushes, or is shy, the one thing you want in the...

Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child’s Future.

I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will always feel bigger than anything life can throw at him. Why? Because I...

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

I’ve been doing silly voices since I was a child.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man’s brains out of his hair. That is my job.

I firmly believe that I have received the same child I was meant to receive, whether I gave birth or adopted. The same soul, the same entity, was meant to be mine, from the beginning...

I don’t read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don’t want to be blocked by things...

Perfection is the child of time.

They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. “What on earth will you be doing with something so large?” said Mum.”I shall live in it with my servants, of course,”...

You can’t play with everything that looks playable, I guess even a child knows that.

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, ‘Hey, I’d like to draw manga – I’d like to be a manga author!’

She knows that it’s not my fault if I don’t know how many Zs there are in LOSER.

I grew up as an only child.

As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was ‘Asterix and Obelix’ and ‘Tin Tin’ comic books, or ‘Lord of the Rings,’ or Frank Herbert’s sci-fi. Or ‘The Wind in the Willows.’...

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

The world is in such a bad condition that if they don’t find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.

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.