I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it...

I would really hope that if my children, God forbid, ever went missing, somebody would do the same,

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

With wintry conditions arriving in the higher elevations, children are facing a potentially deadly combination of cold, malnutrition, and disease,

In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to take his place in that world when he is grown. He...

The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen… The desert is beautiful,” the little prince added. And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a...

All small children are weathermen.

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that’s something we should continue doing.

…take down your baby bump photos from Facebook, take down pictures of your kids too. It is your job to protect your children and not parade them around like little circus freaks or glorified mini-you’s.

…children and their children.

How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?

. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father,...

The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and...

At this stage of my life, I’ve finally come to realize I’ve learned more from my children than they ever learned from me.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else’s.

He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

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

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know...

It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have...

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around me existed all and only For Me. Am I the only one who...

Dear my little children I work hard so as to make your lives better. so don’t rest until you do thesame to your own children.

We certainly want to recruit more homes, especially homes for the children who traditionally have been hardest to find homes for – specifically older adolescents, sibling groups, children of color and those with complex medical...

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

Mr. Crossley suddenly wondered why he was why he was worrying about the note. It was only a joke, after all. He cleared his throat. Everyone looked up hopefully. ‘Somebody,’ said Mr. Crossley, ‘seems to...

LOOKINGThe world goes by, and what have I to do with it? I merely observe how the geese stretch their necks towards the orange rim of sky. I watch how light fades and children make...

Sure. But it might take me a few tries to get you pregnant.

Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them. […] Ronan was mine but he never belonged to me. This is not an issue of ownership....

Sometimes we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

The child who refuses to travel in the father’s harness, this is the symbol of man’s most unique capability. “I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey...

Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God’s highest callings upon your life.

My daughter breaks both her wrists jumping off of a swing. Her friend, who is five, told her to jump off of it. I promise nothing will happen, she said. But why did she promise...

The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it

Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted in a matriarchy.Most city architectural designers and planners are men. Curiously, they design...

There were some children round him playing in the dust on the paths. They had long fair hair, and with very earnest faces and solemn attention were making little mountains of sand so as to...

When the witch is done away with at the end, all the gingerbread kids turn back into children, so they really are the finale, the good triumphing over evil.

Tell your children the most important things To Be when they grow up, is to be kind and compassionate, to be loving and grateful, and to be happy and at peace with who they are,...

This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters’ children./ Don’t do your enemies’ work for them./ Finish your own.

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child.

We all know that by spending the Social Security surplus year after year, Congress is stealing from our children and grandchildren,

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

There,” she said. She rocked him back and forth. “There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a...

I sell my children, and though they feed me, they don’t love me as hers do.

We talked about talking. (We had been interrupting Ms. Diz a lot). She said that when someone is talking, you listen with your ears.And save your questions for the end.Then you use your mouth.Even if...

You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what...

Please? begged Julia as she walked toward the door. But Mikolay grabbed her hand and whispered:Lets just see where the shadow is going and after that, we can go right home.Mikolay and Julia carefully moved...