We need to take turns – it’s the kind thing to do.

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.

Thankfully, the farmers understand my request that the children not be allowed to peer through the windows at me.It would be alarming for them to see me with their dolls, to see me using the...

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening… He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn’t...

There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children

To raise a child is to submit to a staggering amount of work, much of which is deeply unpleasant. It would be crazy to have children if they weren’t so damned important.

If you need a reason to get involved in world politics, all you need to do is watch a playground of children for awhile. Imagine a world that happy and free all the time, that...

Tiny GigglesSilly giggles of laughterI store upon a shelfI give some to otherI save some for myselfI am rich beyond all measureThough not with worldly wealthI store up these treasuresFor my heart and soulful health.

Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because you have to make fun of any religion that would let you have sixteen kids and say...

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.

I don’t dislike them, nor do I like them. I’ve never understood why one must love children simply because they are children. I don’t love people because they are people; in fact, I rarely like...

Charlotte’s dirty dishes haunted her dreams that night. She was running down a dark tunnel and close behind her plates, cups, bowls and crumbs made threatening noises.

Asia has more than twice as many severely deprived children as sub-Saharan Africa. This scale of child poverty will have a serious impact on Asia’s future prospects, unless it is addressed now,

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do...

My hair is not the shiniest of bobsMy eyes are not the brightest in the roomMy figure will not get me modeling jobsMy smile will not bring young boys to their doom.But do I cry...

…the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys...

The children were pleased to receive their gifts and see their parents. They were not ideal conditions, but under the circumstances it was still enjoyable for everybody.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it’s your job to stand in the way.

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

Have times really changed? Don’t we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don’t we today, as always, need God’s divine protecting care? Don’t we today, as always, continue to...

So I’d much rather get across the concept of freedom. It’s what’s important to Indian children. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human...

Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.

From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke–a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart;...

What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won’t embrace it so easily. And death must...

America used to live by the motto “Father Knows Best.” Now we’re lucky if “Father Knows He Has Children.” We’ve become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Young people don’t always do what they’re told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.

Grownups don’t pay it much attention because they can’t imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

Don’t be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world’s greatest changes, brilliant poetry, and innovations have come from the teenage mind.

I have never even idly thought for a single passing second that it might make my life nicer to have a small rude incontinent person follow me around screaming and making me buy them stuff...

Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do– have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love,...

But what if your kid runs into the street in front of a car? Don’t you have to use Method I?” … If a child develops a habit of running into the street, a parent...

We are responding to what parents have said is an appropriate food environment for younger children while they are in school.

If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister...

I had trouble listening to adults who didn’t really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back...

There’s a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That’s all wrong. No one is more covert than a child, and no one has...

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of...

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.

The seed of a blue lupin will usually produce a blue lupin. But the seed of a blue-eyed man may produce a brown-eyed bore…especially if his wife has a taste for gigolos.

For the entrance is low: we must stoop till we are no taller than children to get in.

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

We have long been committed serving the communities in which our employees and clients live and work. With Teach Children to Save Day, our employees have an opportunity to directly impact children in our communities...

Children use that word “hate” to mean various things. It may mean that they are frightened…It is not physical harm that is feared…so much as some spell, or dark intention. It is a feeling you...

There is a wisdom in children, a kind of knowing, a kind of believing, that we, as adults, do not have. There is a time when a kingdom needs its children.

Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn’t appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?

None of this was true. There were no flights. There were no children being rescued. There were no medical supplies being flown. There was no 7-month-old baby who needed a transplant. In fact, he didn’t...