God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

Don’t just leave your footprints in the sand only to be washed away as the ocean waves come crashing to the shore. You want to impact the lives of others in such a way that...

We cannot live without meaning, that would preclude any sense of identity, any hope, any future.

Do we want our children to be debating the Confederate flag in 10 years? … I don’t want that for my children, or yours.

We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

Ukiwapa watoto wako uhuru wa shaghalabaghala au uhuru wa kila kitu watajisahau! Wape uhuru wa mahesabu.

But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest

Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and powerful bond that skin on skin contact with your daughter will give you?...

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

Here’s a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it’s going to pay off later.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it.

Far more often [than asking the question ‘Is it true?’] they [children] have asked me: ‘Was he good? Was he wicked?’ That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the...

The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honour gay kids may depend on an ability to name them as such, notwithstanding that many gay adults may never have been gay kids and...

I was surprised that we could see an upward trend in such a short time among overweight children and obese men.

The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He’s strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.Deborah Norville

They just don’t make them like they used to.” Well, except for kids. People still make children the way they always have, though I am working on a product that’ll make the process 100% more...

If I had my child to raise all over again,I’d finger paint more, and point the finger less.I’d do less correcting, and more connecting.I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I...

Hey, ants!” she shouted. “Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.

Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t remember before they grew selfish.There are buildings all over the world full of...

It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.

How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.

Children are our greatest natural resource.

Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe theyare big. Maybe they are green. Maybe they are all those things. But you should not be...

A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.

All that did a big lot toward showing Youth that this big world is ‘not half bad,’ if adults will but watch, aid, and coach. And I will not stand anybody’s snapping at a child!...

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents – we don’t really have any...

Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled calamity. Maybe she just doesn’t like children.Nobody likes children, Yunior, your mother assured...

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

She said, ‘If you go on the missing children Web site, you’ll see my name on there.’ And I just couldn’t believe it.

If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.

I hope we gave them that sense of belonging because I know there’ll be times in their lives when grasping at those bonds could mean the difference between making it and not.

Knowledge is power and at the end of the day, our health, the health of our children, the health of our community, and the health of Mother Earth is our responsibility. Therefore, it is imperative...

Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy’s thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her poem aloud. She thought of Julia learning to sing with Mrs. Poppy. She thought of Tib learning to...

I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His...

Independance grows out of a child’s faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.

Eis Izras” three times. The door opened at once, unfortunately making lots of noise and waking the humans up. Mikolay knew a few powerful hexes and he was able to create small flying dragons. He...

He brought back some photos of a Navajo rodeo. There were some rather marvelous shots of children and we discussed doing a story about cowboy kids. Before I committed to this, I wanted to make...

In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power...

Children and fools always speak the truth.

Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever,...

All creatures have a sense of territory – except children.

Kids didn’t have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn’t have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through...

If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.

a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.