Pray that your children will develop a heart that seeks after God.

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights...

Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.

I always saw him around his kids. Even though I wasn’t married and didn’t have children at the time, it encouraged me. He showed us what it took to be a special dad. This is...

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can’t resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.

If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for...

It’s Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus

The throbbing engines of the ship and its relentless passage onwards through the sea brought back to us the ever urgency of moving Time, and then we knew that neither they nor we would would...

From what I can tell, the chief distinguishing factor between children and adults is that children hear everything while appearing not to and adults hear nothing while pretending to listen.

Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty – and refuge. “It’s so peaceful out there and the air smells so good....

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Religion- made by men to rule women, children and idiots!

Our taxes are going up anyway. It’s an investment in your children. You owe it to the kids to vote for the budget.

You can’t give her that!’ she screamed. ‘It’s not safe!’IT’S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY’RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.’She’s a child!’ shouted Crumley.IT’S EDUCATIONAL.’What if she cuts herself?’THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.

I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the...

If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue …

The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

Here you have a unique situation where children are literally showing up at the doors of sex offenders.

One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic.

Save the children, save mankind.

Magic?” What did magic have to do with breaking into someone’s store and stealing their stuff?”Don’t you get it?” Peter said. “You’re free now. You don’t have to live by their rules anymore.” Peter pointed...

I do must decidedly object, and have a most invincible and powerful repugnance to that frequent reference to the Almighty in small matters, which so many excellent persons consider necessary in the education of children....

I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born.

Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings; every thought is a garden full of wonder.

Hope had finally learned to live in the present. Often, when she found herself in a space of tremendous comfort, usually out in nature, or when her children were safe all around her and on...

I’ve been the oldest child since before you were born

I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), … The students that came to that class had children. And over a period of a few years, they decided they wanted a nursery...

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Good fathers, and by that I mean real fathers who are there, have the ability to change almost every social problem we now find ourselves facing. I’d be assumptive enough to say that there isn’t...

When our dreams don’t come true, sometimes we can hand them down to our children and hope that they will come true for them. The joy can be immeasurable just the same.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden,...

You’re perfect. To me you are. You always will be. When you’re small you think that about your parents. When you’re old, you think that about your kids. You’ll see.

You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the way you see a table square or a Montclair lip-read. Kids today… you...

single universe, many planets,many continents, and many countries, my country Nigeria will never be like others.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don’t add up nearly so well, that I’m just a shadowed reflection of them....

Not that she’s a political animal, she’s just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she’s of the view that you don’t bring children into the world to have them shot.

Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to say it. But the folds had already rippled flat and nothing was the...

The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to...

The best legacy we leave is not for our children but in our children.

You two are perfect together. And one day . . . one day your children will change everything.

The ToysMy little Son, who look’d from thoughtful eyes And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey’d, I struck him, and dismiss’d With hard words and unkiss’d,—His Mother,...

You can never spend enough time with children.

We can be much, much more than we were taught in teachers college… more than stern ladies at the front of the room who teach children to recite by rote. We can be, we MUST...