The ability to retain a child’s view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare – and a person who has these...

I wasn’t exactly good with children. I wasn’t bad with them, as such. I just wasn’t around them much and, because of that, when I was, they freaked me out because I didn’t know what...

In the midst of her tears came the thought, “When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;” and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said...

The accountant lingers at his children’s doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost – but he know that’s...

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be...

The people who run the circus kidnapped us from our parents. Since we got here, we have all been working in the circus. We can’t see any of our mummies or kiss them OR cuddle...

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to...

Fourteen people died on the spot and four people, including two children, have been injured.

What feeling is so nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Come, my child,” I said, trying to lead her away. “Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries.””Good-bye, poor hare!” Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we...

They’d listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they’d turn to each other they’d smile cruelly. He couldn’t have it both ways. He’d put himself outside and outside they’d make him stay. Neither brutality nor...

I’m going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always...

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

It was very laborious and very dangerous to make soap. Children weren’t even allowed to be in the area because fumes from the lye could burn their throats.

Sometimes what we don’t want is actually what we need.

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both...

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.

During an especially noisy elementary school assembly I witnessed a common marvel. Someone spoke,”Once upon a time…” into the mic, and the room hushed. Such magic never ceases to amaze me.

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

Kids who are good at traditional school—repeating rote concepts and facts on a test—can fall apart in a situation where that isn’t enough. Programming rewards the experimental, curious mind.

Pray that your children will develop a heart that seeks after God.

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights...

Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.

I always saw him around his kids. Even though I wasn’t married and didn’t have children at the time, it encouraged me. He showed us what it took to be a special dad. This is...

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can’t resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.

If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for...

It’s Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus

The throbbing engines of the ship and its relentless passage onwards through the sea brought back to us the ever urgency of moving Time, and then we knew that neither they nor we would would...

From what I can tell, the chief distinguishing factor between children and adults is that children hear everything while appearing not to and adults hear nothing while pretending to listen.

Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty – and refuge. “It’s so peaceful out there and the air smells so good....

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Religion- made by men to rule women, children and idiots!

Our taxes are going up anyway. It’s an investment in your children. You owe it to the kids to vote for the budget.

You can’t give her that!’ she screamed. ‘It’s not safe!’IT’S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY’RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.’She’s a child!’ shouted Crumley.IT’S EDUCATIONAL.’What if she cuts herself?’THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.

I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the...

If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue …

The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

Here you have a unique situation where children are literally showing up at the doors of sex offenders.

Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.

I swear, if I could eat my children, I would. I’d consume them like some beast in a Hieronymus Bosch painting, but in a friendlier, more momlike way. Their little bodies make me salivate. It...

Maybe not. But maybe that’s how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing, the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children.Is that the first sign of love?You hear in the person you’re destined to...