Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

They were very active in the community, as far as taking children in. This was not the first or one of the first children that they had taken into their home.

The only duty you owe is to yourself and to your family.The duty you owe to yourself is to do the best you can, and the duty you owe to your family is to endeavor...

snips and snails and puppydog tails.

To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.

schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will not learn unless made to, that they cannot learn unless shown how, and that the way...

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

The world doesn’t owe you anything because you’re in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.

Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear...

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am...

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That’s part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.