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.

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, ‘This is art, and you can’t do it.

Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed him and take him to bed. Lady Jeeha “Wolf Dawn

… although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable–children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real...

When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o’clock in the afternoon and she said, “Oh my God, chapter six, sex and a murder,” and her five year...

But I will tell you what I say to my children: ‘Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that...

When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

Small animals are a great problem. I wish God had never created small animals, or else that He had made them so they could talk, or else that He’d given them better faces. Space. Take...

I’m most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I see them more like Steel. When heated, they can be bent either which...

Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.

I certainly, with no hesitation, would say that every mother can feel confident that they can feed their children beef in this country,

From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.

And the question is always “When are you going to have kids?” Rather than “Do you want to have kids?

Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.

I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater....

With some parents’ work schedules, some children might be here at the school for 11 hours.