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

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 much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

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?

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.

It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.

There wouldn’t be half as much fun in the world if it weren’t for children and men, and there ain’t a mite of difference between them under the skins

Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.

Ignorance… is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

You shouldn’t be in here!

Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting for his autograph, he’d stand there and sign for each one.

Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful

Im’s offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk’s claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My children get drunk, confuse a herd of cows with an enemy regiment, and slaughter the lot, screaming like lunatics until the entire army...

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Erections are temporary, but child support is forever.

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

You won’t ever catch me wearing an oven mitt, because what’s wrong with a regular condom? If I’m wearing an oven mitt, I’m too late, because you’ve already got one in the oven.

No matter what you do each day…or in life…doing things God’s way is a matter of the heart.

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write.Although they’ve nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway….

I know that big people don’t like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How’s school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

If they sit down and ask themselves what evidence they have that he meant to kill the children, it won’t take them very long.

Your children are perfume of your love.

So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a while, they would learn from their kids what life is truly about.

I like dogsBig dogsLittle dogsFat dogsDoggy dogsOld dogsPuppy dogsI like dogsA dog that is barking over the hillA dog that is dreaming very stillA dog that is running wherever he willI like dogs.

Dad was on the porch, pacing back and forth in that uneven stride he had on account of having a gimp leg. When he saw, he let out a yelp of delight and started hobbling down the steps towards us. Mom came running out of the house. She sank down on her knees, clasped her...

Children are the poem made flesh.

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.

I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their “different drum”: Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes...

TV news is like kryptonite to children. The two major shifts in taste for children to adulthood are news and mustard. Kids hate news and mustard. Well, mustard even has the word ‘turd’ in it. Maybe I should threaten my kids that if they don’t go to bed, I will force them to watch an...

Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn’t, don’t import it.

She had so many freckles that Erskine wondered if she might have stolen some from other children.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the commemorative coin sets today will be used to help children who are victims of Hurricane Katrina. There are thousands of kids who have been affected by the hurricane, and as we welcome some of them to Kansas, we want to let all of them know...

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who’d sat up with...

La relación de una niña con su muñeca es de las más fuertes del universo. Una fuerza descomunal movida por una energía tremenda.

Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.

Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.

It is critical that we work to ensure the success of our public school children in a highly competitive and global marketplace.

I’m just frustrated by teachers and their lack of patience for children like him.

What are you babbling on about, woman?” sighed Chloe. She’d picked this phrase up from her father and imitated his weary tone perfectly. They’d made the mistake of laughing the first time she did it, so she’d kept it up, and said it just often enough, and with perfect timing, so that they couldn’t help...

The hospital had received 1,500 injured children after the earthquake in the area and there were still 50 there. It was a pretty touching experience. Pakistan was awesome. Everything was much nicer than I expected. The hotel we stayed at was very westernized, so I wasn’t roughing it all. I did not feel in danger...

I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Children aren’t everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don’t seem to suspect it.

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

As kids become more tech savvy, something has to be done. We can’t just tell children not to visit these sites and assume that will be enough. And we’ve heard that parental control programs are too complex for people, so best of all would be straightforward, easy applications, and some legislation as well.

… knowing that Cathy was not going to leave Bevin for the sake of the children, he decided to kill him at the shark net,

I never really grew up until I had kids.

As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry, surrendering...

This is about little children … and people not giving them better choices,