Twenty percent of our population is made up of children, yet children are 100 percent of our future,

For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and—by some sad, strange irony—it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not...

She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.Well! This...

No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,” he began, “especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?””They go to hell,” was my ready and orthodox answer.”And...

normal” until adults squeeze it out them.

…my object is to show that the chief function of the child–his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life–is to find out all he can, about whatever comes...

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

I don’t know why it was, exactly, but nothing irritated my father quite like the sound of his children’s happiness. Group crying, he could stand, but group laughing was asking for it, especially at the...

Make no mistake. I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your causal gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force,...

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such...

Do you really think we’ll ever–“”I do,” he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. “I know it, Sassenach, and so do you. You were meant to be...

We’re constantly judging and grading other parents, just to make sure that they aren’t any better than us. I’m as guilty as anyone. I see some lady hand her kid a Nintendo DS at the...

Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop....

Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did – that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were...

TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in...

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.

I want to have negative three kids. Or three negative kids.

A godly mother loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and teaches her children to do the same.

If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they’re able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense...

Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates. I am a Christ-myth advocate and am pursuing research into how Christianity could...

Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison

People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children.

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own...

The birth of a child is a sacred phenomenon.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

Interviewer (Louise Tucker): What did you want to be when you grew up? Have you always wanted to be a writer?IllumBerg: When I was a child I was busy being a child. […]

The idea of not being a kid anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the world of boys and girls into the fray of men and women, and...

If it’s not good enough for adults, it’s not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the...

Children and adults alike will sing until we shut it down for the main event.

Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn’t know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.

In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

I don’t care what your excuse is, I don’t care what you think God told you to do, if you are in the business of closing children’s minds and obliterating their capacity to imagine, and...

,Salvar a una niña no era como salvar el mundo?

Today, make time to play.

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

I do urge you to welcome children. Even one child will make a difference in your life that you cannot fathom. I promise you, my girl.

I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do...

A word is a small song.

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

…you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than...

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

I cannot wait to stare into the face of my children and be in love.

And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat”...

It’s a curious idea to reproduce when you don’t even like life.

Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.