I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to ’em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!

Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours,” muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief’s gesture against...

You ChoseYou chose.You chose.You chose.You chose to give away your love.You chose to have a broken heart. You chose to give up. You chose to hang on.You chose to react.You chose to feel insecure.You chose...

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God’s love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect his love in their words and deeds. It ultimately gets...

Listen in close, Wall Street Conquistadors, you’re spreading like vapor up through people’s floors, you’re moving en masse under the cracks of our doors and grabbing our children to work in your stores, feeding the...

We must teach our children to get ‘EXCITED’ about life and the World around them,instead of ‘painting’ their minds with OUR potrayal of ‘how’ the World is…children learn from ’emulating’ their elders,not by being told…which...

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

I thought of the parable of the prodigal son. We had made merry for the beloved child’s return too – but what happens when the beloved child doesn’t say she’s sorry? The parable doesn’t talk...

Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child.

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.

It’s so incredibly special. Children come to swim, bike and run and leaving feeling confident and having had a good time. They also leave knowing that people care about making the world just a little...

The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they...

Both my wife and our children are from Hawaii. We get macadamia nuts shipped to us regularly, and I think chocolate and macadamias go together like a husband and wife. The tartlets have key lime...

All children have creative power.

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms,...

While humans have the propensity to develop a suite of prosocial behaviors, they are also capable of developing antisocial behavior, engaging in substance abuse, experiencing depression, and bearing children at an early age…Young people who...

We owe it to each other – and to our children and grandchildren – to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

Please, let them be little,‘Cause they’re only that way for a while.Give them hope, give them praise,Give them love every day.Let ‘em cry, let ‘em giggle,Let ‘em sleep in the middle,Oh, but let them be...

We are bent on weakening bonds in the name of growth and independance,then spend out adulthoods wondering why we have trouble getting close to other people.

When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee wanted to prove to me that he had made the right choice so he worked hard and...

We must have the love that exists among children, for with them love rules without any special purpose.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers...

Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be...

Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word “to train.

The greatest legacy a father can leave for his children before he departs is PEACE, otherwise his properties will go in PIECES sooner that he dies.

Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual where they dress in Santa suits, take toys from department stores and distribute them to children on the street, partly just...

Find joy in the faces of children who view life as so magical. Give thanks every day for your life and for your existence. Your life matters, you matter. So many people think and care...

A blown kiss is not a proper kiss. Hugs and kisses should be hugs and kisses, not breaths of air. I am tired of breaths of air and not enough hugs and kisses.

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his hands on his hips. Summertime, and his children played in the front yard with their friend, enacting...

Always believe in good and happiness. Never except “I can’t” Always say I can..

If kids six and under eat free, then I’m an infant. Or at least infantile. Bring on the steaks.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown’s family. ‘The person you want,’ they said, ‘is Nurse Matilda.

And here is my sweet little Annamaria,’ she added, tenderly caressing a little girl of three years old, who had not made a noise for the last two minutes; ‘And she is always so gentle...

Parents, … …are locked in a losing competition with culture to raise our children.

When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby...

There are grandchildren everywhere. Children have needs all over this county. I know it becomes more important when it’s your children . . .

It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they...

I love children. Eating them, that is.

You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you’re going to grow up into a virago…

God’s greatest blessing; gift of children.

I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn’t we embrace such simple joys?

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Our children continue to be healthier … because our infant and adolescent mortality rates continue to decline,

I don’t know as much about children as I would like to. I am godmother to a wonderful three-year-old boy named dominic, the son of my friend Sophie. They live in Scotland, near Oban, and...