Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison

People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children.

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own...

The birth of a child is a sacred phenomenon.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

Interviewer (Louise Tucker): What did you want to be when you grew up? Have you always wanted to be a writer?IllumBerg: When I was a child I was busy being a child. […]

The idea of not being a kid anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the world of boys and girls into the fray of men and women, and...

If it’s not good enough for adults, it’s not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the...

Children and adults alike will sing until we shut it down for the main event.

Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn’t know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.

In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

I don’t care what your excuse is, I don’t care what you think God told you to do, if you are in the business of closing children’s minds and obliterating their capacity to imagine, and...

,Salvar a una niña no era como salvar el mundo?

Today, make time to play.

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

I do urge you to welcome children. Even one child will make a difference in your life that you cannot fathom. I promise you, my girl.

I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do...

A word is a small song.

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

…you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than...

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

I cannot wait to stare into the face of my children and be in love.

And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat”...

It’s a curious idea to reproduce when you don’t even like life.

Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

You read a lot about the effort and you don’t hear a lot about the children.

If Mom is convinced that ballet lessons are a must, she shouldtake them.Although it may look odd to see a thirty-year old woman hang- ing onto a bar and flinging a slightly plump leg in...

Mother Veda is compassionate; she longs to liberate her children from doubt and discontent. She has no desire to inflame or confuse; wise men know this well.

Behold the Power of the peanut. His body mass may be small, but his influence is mighty. The last holdout in the Tower has officially fallen to him. (Said by Pia about the effect her...

The Jews have a saying worth remembering: “Whoever doesn’t teach his son some trade or business, teaches him to be a thief.” As soon as ever I can, I will make my children apprehensive of...

… Genesis 18 calls fathers to direct their children to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Being a parent means working in God’s behalf to provide direction for...

But why is it that if you imagine a baby who smells of milk, for example, you can’t help smiling? Why is there such an agreement around the world about what is or isn’t a...

Don’t deny your parents a chance at happiness and also an opportunity to see you achieve greatness.

Perhaps it’s human nature: We want to shield our children from pain, and what we get instead is life and heartache and lessons that bring us to our knees. Sooner or later we are handed...

Although Geoffrey, Gilbert and I grew up in this small place in Africa, we did many of the same things children do all over the world, only with slightly different materials. And talking with friends...

There’s a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . ....

When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything,...

Plans make dreams reality.

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

It’s been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds...

I know I’ll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there’s one thing being a victor doesn’t guarantee, it’s our children’s safety. My kids’ names would go right into the...

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...