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.

It’s never too early to begin pointing your little ones’ souls heavenward.

I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults were like Father Andrew.

Have you children, Mr Brandstetter?” He shook his head. “I was one once. Does it help?

If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you...

You know what a mistake is, right?””Like when Mommy yells at me and then says she is sorry later.

They can’t get a home for their children, they see black and ethnic minority communities moving in and they are angry.

Children act on the words they hear.May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.May your words inspire and challenge children to fulfill their true potential.

I don’t think it is still too late” and I have never heard him complaining about life.

Over the years, I have noticed that the child who learns quickly is adventurous. She’s ready to run risks. She approaches life with arms outspread. She wants to take it all in. She still has...

The birth of a child is divine miracle.

Wasn’t there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?

This historic investment in children’s health is a major victory for America’s children and working families,

Another thing we can learn to do is to be more grateful for every day we have with our children. None of us ever knows how long we have on Earth, so it is imperative...

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as “ordinary blessings.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little...

You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope.

The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. He has no awares of himself...

If you use magic outside the school, we are going to get into more trouble than ever. I’m still not allowed to eat sweets after the last trouble we got into. They will lock us...

The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours.

…as we are endowed. …with rhetorics. …none will deny. …of innocence. …towards scribbling. …of love lines. …and of lust. …to what seems like male. …to what seems like female. …in those days. …I mean nothing....

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone...

I didn’t want my children to work in the rice fields, I wanted them to go to school and get good jobs, … Lula helped.

the seriousness of emotional deprivation:It is not difficult to understand how children who have suffered from malnutrition or starvation need food and plenty of care in their bodies are to recover so they can go...

This isn’t just an Illinois story, it’s a national story. This week’s announcement was wonderful for the children of Illinois but equally wonderful for the children across this country?Many many families will enjoy the benefits...

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.