The Children’s HourBetween the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,That is known as the Children’s Hour.I hear in the chamber above meThe patter of little...

It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed to prepare us for the realities of adult life. Certainly it’s true that...

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn’t quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it...

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

cranky.” And big, gulping sobs, or sad, unhappy young minds, in a tiny body should not occur in any community of civilization. Adulthood holds many an opportunity for such conditions. Childhood should not.

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.

This is the same type of doll as that handed out on several occasions by US soldiers to children.

People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you’re young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul…

Children remind us that we’re all children.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

I snap and storm around and then spend long nights thinking of the most damaged adults I know and wondering if my particular brand of maternal fuckups are how they ended up like that.

Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer...

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,...

Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids.

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out,...

Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the...

For gypsies do not like to stay -They only come to go away.

You want to keep guns separated from children.

The child that’s at the hospital on life support is not related to any of the other children or the daycare provider.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale – they are well-equipped to deal with these

The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.

The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.

Congressman (Hefley) certainly is interested in the protection of children and keeping them out of reach of sexual predators. But he also thinks that the bill should have been taken for its merits (without) trying...

There passed a child of four, a small girl on a footpath over the fields, going home in the evening to Erl. They looked at each other with round eyes.”Hullo,” said the child.”Hullo, child of...

Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child.

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting,...

Without you there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born of your guidance. I am me only because of you.

Seuls les enfants solitaires peuvent contenir toute leur passion; les autres, à trop causer éventent leurs sentiments en public, les émoussent en vaines confidences.

The priest told the children that Jesus knew it would be sufficient food if everyone shared, … The priest suggested that Jesus removed the people ‘ s Ë fear of sharing. ‘ And when we...

Do not ask your childrento strive for extraordinary lives.Such striving may seem admirable,but it is the way of foolishness.Help them instead to find the wonderand the marvel of an ordinary life.Show them the joy of...

Only dedicated mothers can offer to the nation children who will strive for a great future for the country.

It is time for these children to go home, go to school and enjoy the fruits of peace.

We came around the corner and stood in the doorway of what looked like a paint-testing ground. This was where we proved once and for all that we were good loving parents. We decided to...

You are in a position to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children’s children.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Children play from the library of their imagination and it feels real to them.

As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and...

I don’t really know them, but I know this: they’re just like your kids were. Or are. Sweet, trusting, good in ways we adults hardly even remember. We have to look out for them. Not...

In raising and instructing our children, in providing personal and compassionate care for the elderly, in maintaining the spiritual strength of religious commitment among our people– in these and other ways, America’s families make immeasurable...

…it struck her, this was tragedy– not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.

You have them, you name them. They’re helpless, and you teach, or train, them. Feed them, water them, whatever. And as they grow up, you just hope that they grow up well and don’t spend...

I do not believe in the government of the lash, if any one of you ever expects to whip your children again, I want you to have a photograph taken of yourself when you are...

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

Deep down, I have come to the conclusion that the reason (children) are such a low priority to the great human institutions that seek to control this world, both secular and Christian, is that an...

There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku čovječanstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.

I really loathe [the bumper sticker] ‘Proud Parent of a Terrific Kid!’Why not a bumper sticker for the unlucky parents, something like: ‘My Fifteen-Year-Old’s in Detox and Not Speaking to Any of Us’ or ‘My...