One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents,… — Ursula Hegi Copy Share Image
With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just as this scale predicted the future health and happiness of the children in this study, so does knowing and telling our… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to.… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
“2. PERSISTENCE: If an idea or an activity is important to them, spirited children can “lock” right in. They are committed to… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
“We simply must accept that they are loaned to us for a time and then they are released into adulthood. When we… — Meg Meeker Copy Share Image
Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jicho ni kiungo cha ajabu zaidi kuliko viungo vyote katika mwili wa mwanadamu baada ya ubongo. Jicho moja linatengenezwa na viungo vidogovidogo… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word... SACRIFICE.… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example,… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
You want to have a loving, safe relationship with your child, but you can't because you have to do these things to… — Jack Coleman Copy Share Image
Ever since the kids were babies, we have treated them with respect. We are the mom and dad for sure, but we… — Jodi Benson Copy Share Image
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
It can no longer be an afterthought in a child's development that the analytical side is not of equal to the creative… — Johnathon Schaech Copy Share Image
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind… — Danielle Crittenden Copy Share Image
Every day, families in Africa go without food and water, never knowing when their next meal might be; but we can change… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
“After you are here, I will try not to become one of those parents who brag incessantly about their children, who force… — Suzanne Finnamore Copy Share Image
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties… — Timothy Murphy Copy Share Image
“Parents of spirited children who are learning to manage their intensity well are talking about intensity and naming the emotions. They soothe… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Each soul has it's own path. Children are young personalities but they are not always young souls. Incarnation into the domain of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Why me? Why did this happen? How could I be in Westlife and then have nothing to show for it financially at… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're… — Jann Wenner Copy Share Image
“But - but - but!" said Dirk, thumping the table in frustration, "don't you understand that we need to be childish in… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Parents think they can hand children permanent confidence—like a gift—by praising their brains and talent. It doesn’t work, and in fact has… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
There are really two major obstacles all parents face in teaching their children to obey: not only is the world they live… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
