Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone,...

Anything can become a children’s book if you give it to a child…Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they’ll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we’ve promised.

A paedophile is someone whose sexual attraction towards children their own age did not grow with them.

While it may not be the single silver bullet in the fight to protect our children in cyberspace, … it is an important piece of a much larger solution.

Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children – usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.

village.” And to pursue a life of purpose.We affirm our duty to nourish and nurture the young, to honour their caring ideals as the heart of being human. To recognize the early years as the...

Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The...

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It’s good for them.

In a way that I haven’t yet figured out how to fully articulate, I believe that children who get to see bald eagles, coyotes, deer, moose, grouse, and other similar sights each morning will have...

The idea is to improve school safety for the children. We had a swipe-card system that operated the doors, but the technology was obsolete.

No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.

The children of southern Africa need help now – before their tiny emaciated bodies appear on television screens.

Serbia must stop in order to go forward, … Children should not go to school, students should not go to university, theatres and movie houses should close.

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not...

When a child is forced to prove himself as capable, results are often disastrous. A child needs love, acceptance, and understanding. He is devastated when confronted with rejection, doubts, and never ending testing.

Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of immediacy, a need to say or do something, now, now, the minute it...

Children love to polish brass and silver, then move on to polishing their own shoes.

I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellent, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.

I like children. If they’re properly cooked.

“It is not possible to satisfy women,” a friend said. “We are disturbed if we have children too young. Disturbed if we have then later. Disturbed if we don’t have children at all.”

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams…

It was not till I experimented with seeds plucked straight from a growing plant that I had my first success…the first thrill of creation…the first taste of blood. This, surely, must be akin to the...

The modern view seems to me to involve a false conception of growth. They accuse us of arrested development because we have not lost a taste we had in childhood. But surely arrested development consists...

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.

She didn’t like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she’d been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

All grown-ups were once children, although few of them remember it.

Having a child isn’t a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed...

These young people are going to change the world.

I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

Do not give a damn what “they” have to say (and you will know who they are) for you are either very right or very wrong, but at least you are very something.

The thoughts and prayers of everyone in this building are with Tony and [wife] Lauren, their children and their extended family, and for the repose of James’ soul. This is a tragedy for the Dungy...

(K)ids are savages who haven’t learned to lie to themselves yet, and they don’t flinch from the truth.

The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere, respect, uphold, uplift, protect, shield, defend, safeguard, treasure and love her children. I...

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

Nós, pais erramos muito e frequentemente porque os manuais são genéricos e nosso produto específico.

It’s not the role of the government to raise these children. It’s the responsibility of parents. As soon as we perfect reading, writing and arithmetic, then we’ll consider taking on a few more responsibilities.

And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol.It was at this point that Lord...

Watu wanahitaji elimu na ajira kuwaepusha na janga la madawa ya kulevya.

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve...

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Yes. I won’t be giving them to the children, but back to society. Don’t get me wrong, the children will get something, but we received from society, and will give it back.

When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others.

Isn’t a kid alive who doesn’t dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

The greatest duty of mankind lies in the proper uprearing of our children. The fact is recognized, but is the duty fulfilled? Do we rear our children as we should? There is but one answer:...