The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown’s family. ‘The person you want,’ they said, ‘is Nurse Matilda.

And here is my sweet little Annamaria,’ she added, tenderly caressing a little girl of three years old, who had not made a noise for the last two minutes; ‘And she is always so gentle...

Parents, … …are locked in a losing competition with culture to raise our children.

When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby...

There are grandchildren everywhere. Children have needs all over this county. I know it becomes more important when it’s your children . . .

It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they...

I love children. Eating them, that is.

You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you’re going to grow up into a virago…

God’s greatest blessing; gift of children.

I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn’t we embrace such simple joys?

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Our children continue to be healthier … because our infant and adolescent mortality rates continue to decline,

I don’t know as much about children as I would like to. I am godmother to a wonderful three-year-old boy named dominic, the son of my friend Sophie. They live in Scotland, near Oban, and...

The innocence of such children doesn’t answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Tus hijos no son tus hijos son hijos e hijas de la vida deseosa de si misma. No vienen de ti, sino a través de ti y aunque estén contigo no te pertenecen. Puedes darles...

When Mikolay and Julia are not at school, they usually go exploring and adventuring. Mikolay’s and Julia’s mummies are both witches and are in charge of fixing things.

Even if we have grown so far apart that we don’t recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?

My demons creep like a pedo in a park full of kids. Each one reminding me of the consequences, what I didn’t do, or did.

I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves – to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him...

İki tip çocuk vardı: Biri sonuna kadar gözyaşlarına boğulmayı tercih eder, ama tabağındaki pırasayı yemeye mahkum olur. Diğeri ise ne yapacağını biliyordur. Küçük, anlaşılmayacak bir samimiyete indirgenmiş ani bir kusma refleksi ve patates kızartması beş...

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children’s eyes.

Children need to see that they are part of a history and that the story of their family is a living thing. God tells it, a new story in each generation, and each must hold...

Then there are all of those children, the ones who aren’t resilient. The ones who slowly, quietly die. I think the difference is that the kids who bounce back learn to bear a little bit...

Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

God never leaves His children to wander alone. We are always surrounded with unconditional love.

Would I ever have the courage to tell Wills the truth? That he wasn’t just imagining the world was a more difficult place for him to understand than for some of his buddies – that...

Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small...

This program is critical to the elderly, disabled and children of this state,

I love you. I love you both so much.””To the moon and back?” Alice asked.”Oh my God,” Georgie said, “so much farther.

With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

I began to see that creating a healthy family, in which members develop the ability for mutual respect and caring, is a prerequisite for a more peaceful world. For, it is the family that creates...

Love your children, and most especially the woman who gave birth to them.

It’s not simply the learning, … It’s the stability. Stability is essential in the lives of children.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children

There is no better time than now to rededicate yourself to the principles taught by Jesus, and to teach your children about Him too!

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!

Research shows, … that while mothers tend to soothe their children and shield them from too much stimulation, the average father is inclined to arouse the emotions and stimulate a boy, playing with him zestfully...

All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods...

It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.

How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of apprehension at each childish ailment, and the children clung to their parents with...

We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.