Wer für Kinder schreibt, übt den Beruf des Schriftstellers unter erschwerten Bedingungen aus, und dies freiwillig … Wer für Erwachsene schreibt, schreibt ausschließlich für Erwachsene. Wer für Kinder schreibt, schreibt automatisch für Erwachsene mit.”[As quoted...

Were up to our necks in deficit spending. Were piling up billions more in debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay,

A man’s immortality can be found in his children.

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence...

A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of...

We were told the disability assistance is for the needy but I don’t know who needs more than our children. That is discriminatory and that is victimization.

Sometimes, she wondered what she was missing, if her life was somehow incomplete because she didn’t see the reflection of her face in the face of a son or daughter. Maybe. That’s what mothers told...

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again.Her bad heart, I noticed,...

True children of God experience pleasure in giving.

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth, as ‘wild’. Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’ and only to him...

All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.

One of the issues that always comes up is how can we protect our children better, what type of changes if any need to be made. Although I can say that I have been doing...

It’s an awe-filled, wonderful, terrifying act to have a child, for you suddenly wear your heart on the outside of your body. You risk a little more each day as he wanders from your arms...

Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: ‘He who sleeps here never gave us...

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellent, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.

I like children. If they’re properly cooked.

“It is not possible to satisfy women,” a friend said. “We are disturbed if we have children too young. Disturbed if we have then later. Disturbed if we don’t have children at all.”

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams…

It was not till I experimented with seeds plucked straight from a growing plant that I had my first success…the first thrill of creation…the first taste of blood. This, surely, must be akin to the...

The modern view seems to me to involve a false conception of growth. They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists...

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

She didn’t like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she’d been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

All grown-ups were once children, although few of them remember it.

Having a child isn’t a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed...

These young people are going to change the world.

I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

Do not give a damn what “they” have to say (and you will know who they are) for you are either very right or very wrong, but at least you are very something.

The thoughts and prayers of everyone in this building are with Tony and [wife] Lauren, their children and their extended family, and for the repose of James’ soul. This is a tragedy for the Dungy...

(K)ids are savages who haven’t learned to lie to themselves yet, and they don’t flinch from the truth.

The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere, respect, uphold, uplift, protect, shield, defend, safeguard, treasure and love her children. I...

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

Nós, pais erramos muito e frequentemente porque os manuais são genéricos e nosso produto específico.

It’s not the role of the government to raise these children. It’s the responsibility of parents. As soon as we perfect reading, writing and arithmetic, then we’ll consider taking on a few more responsibilities.

And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol.It was at this point that Lord...

Watu wanahitaji elimu na ajira kuwaepusha na janga la madawa ya kulevya.

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve...

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Yes. I won’t be giving them to the children, but back to society. Don’t get me wrong, the children will get something, but we received from society, and will give it back.

When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others.

Isn’t a kid alive who doesn’t dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

The greatest duty of mankind lies in the proper uprearing of our children. The fact is recognized, but is the duty fulfilled? Do we rear our children as we should? There is but one answer:...

Oh, why did nobody warn me?” cried Grimes in agony. “I should have been told. They should have told me in so many words. They should have warned me about Flossie, not about the fires...

Children who are very shy or anxious or overly aggressive often get caught up in bully-victim relationships that have negative impact on both children. It is also common for children with social difficulties to be...

Dope.They sell that shit to schoolkids.It’s worse than that.How’s that?Schoolkids buy it.

The main thing is I live in the community, work in the community and have children in the community. I don’t have any agenda, not to say that anyone else does. The only thing I...

Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule, but with common-sense exceptions), courteous (especially to the elderly, no matter their apparent...

No more than two to a tricycle, please. When I said family fun, I didn’t mean this is a place to start a family. (Children over 65 eat free.)

When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.