You were always an annoyingly holy child, Frankie. What the hell was wrong with you?

There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

We’re assigned to children who are doomed.

Relearning from children their need to question and discover can ignite one’s creativity and reveal more possibilities.

Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

The dream too thinks twice, gets filtered to go softto be seated on children’s eyes.

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

No child ever became ‘good’ by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him.

Children are teachers of love.

As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives.

The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none, zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren reads–and at how...

You’re only as happy as your least happy child,’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.

Secure attachment has been linked to a child’s ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one’s shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the...

Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives.

Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit.

The big guys who ran things didn’t want you thinking or feeling. It slowed down production. They wanted you scared and working so you wouldn’t bump up against the truth–life could be fun. Yup, they...

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know.

We should not influence our children to such a belief or religion. We should just show them the path of goodness; and from that, they can choose according to their interests.

Grandchildren are their grandparents’ toys.

The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief.

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve.

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world...

Whatever I haven’t accomplished biologically obviously wasn’t all that imperative.

I’m planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.

Children with autism are colourful – they are often very beautiful and, like the rainbow, they stand out.

The school hours for children are the best time for learning, and need the best environment and mission oriented learning with value based educational system.

Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven’t forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to...

Life – with or without softener- is hard

At that moment Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn’t know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with, and he reached out in order to meet her for...

I’m only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it...

It’s only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

No, Roger had not seen the funny side. But there had been a moment when, after looking at his watch, he had thought: I can remember when Christmas morning would start at about half past...

Children will often rise or fall accordingto the expectations of loved ones in their lives.

The real loser in the election tonight was not Jim Leininger but the parents of inner-city children trapped in failing schools who will now have more legislators aligned with teachers unions instead of children who...

Children may not understand all that’s happening below the surface of a story. It doesn’t matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there’s something more than...

My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all...

The people of jewel,” said Olga Ciavolga,”treat their children like delicate flowers. They think they will not survive without constant protection. But there are parts of the world where young boys and girls spend weeks...

Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is “By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents,” for I have used many suggestions conveyed to me in letters from children. Once on a...

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew.””He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six.””Right.””And you’re the oldest.””Yes.””That’s too bad. Parents...

The notion of children makes me ill. The thought of having one… when you see those guys in the supermarket, wheeling the trolley around while their brats whine and wheedle and some blundering sow questions...

Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it’s a sort of compensation for having been born. ‘There are no strings...