Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

I have long held that there are two fundamental views of children: That they are pets who can talk, or that they are small people who do not yet know very much. The wrong one...

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”....

Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me.

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from...

I’ve got much in my life that’s so good: my wife, my children, my friends. I don’t need anything filled up by success or a band, … If I’m going to play with people, I’m...

…but oh, it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed...

There’s nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.

Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.

Save money on kids by volume. Deal in bulk and have dozens of kids.

Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

They were very active in the community, as far as taking children in. This was not the first or one of the first children that they had taken into their home.

The only duty you owe is to yourself and to your family.The duty you owe to yourself is to do the best you can, and the duty you owe to your family is to endeavor...

snips and snails and puppydog tails.

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.

schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will not learn unless made to, that they cannot learn unless shown how, and that the way...

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

The world doesn’t owe you anything because you’re in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.

Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear...

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am...

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That’s part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

We’re heading into the really bad part of the winter and I’m terrified for the elders and the children and the disabled who have already exhausted their [energy assistance] benefits.

There is nothing that moves a loving father’s soul quite like his child’s cry.

People should tell your children what life is all about — it’s about work.

When the children see these photos and what they stand for, it encourages them to follow in those footsteps.

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins.

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

You don’t pay back your parents. You can’t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It’s a sort of entailment. Or if you don’t have children...

Don’t you remember what your grandfather used to say? That thing about pots and people?””That pots were like people,” Alex replied flatly, thinking back to his grandfather carrying a tray of wet freshly thrown clay...

The child, through no fault of its own, and through the very nature of being a child, is egocentric and self-absorbed. Thus, if the daughter does not make her bed, and the mother yells, and...

Lamlah tidak mau jadi anak laja, Lamlah anak bapak dan anak mak,”jawab budak yang belum mengenal kemuliaan dunia itu.Ala, bodoh si Malah ini, tidak mau jadi anak raja?” kata si Saminmencampuri percakapan itu. “Anak raja...

You’re a good example of why some animals eat their young.

He wants an update on how the children are.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere–to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely...

I’m an ‘All My Children’ fan, so I recognized him as the guy from that show.

The usual fraud is a refusal to have children. Or you see it if somebody is homosexual, or has some kind of disease, or claims they’re from nobility when they’re not.

It’s a wonderful way to introduce children to the magic of live theater, with characters they can easily identify with.

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...

A lot of (children’s literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never be confused with a plot. You can’t preach to kids, and...

In old times elders used to tell the young children ,all about the nation’s great heroes and saints. Where are such elders today?

At it’s highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student’s mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its...

Eat a Prime Rib Dinner here to help Feed The Children who are victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

Girls say to me, very reasonably, ‘why isn’t it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of boys?’ Well, my reply is I was once a little boy – I...

Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don’t need a political movement for children… [we need to] build environments and policies for our collective future.