Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“When children feel comfortable asking for help, they know they matter.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Ideally parentage should be a privilege of health, not a by-product of sexual agitation. Is” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“When you go to heaven you can be what you like and I intend to be a child.” — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
“You were always an annoyingly holy child, Frankie. What the hell was wrong with you?” — Lisa Dekis Copy Share Image
Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I have met parents all over the world, and they all just want to raise their kids to a higher standard than… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
“I realized then that if I could teach my children only one or two basic principles, tolerance would be one of them.” — David Elliot Cohen Copy Share Image
“He doesn't even look at her because there is too much there, and he's afraid. She is his first child, his favorite,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Children are wonderful, but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“If raising healthy children involves telling the truth about the family narrative, that was something I could do. It would take some… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Mum , You may be treated like the maid , you may be treated like the gardner , you may be treated… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“They say kids are like sponges because they observe everything. I guess that makes teens and adults like mops because they're just… — David A. Santos Copy Share Image
As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes the way a caring family or state institution treats a child from the way an investor would, if they’re both… — Malcolm Harris Copy Share Image
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blueeyes or small feet. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“A parent's love is unconditional. A parent's satisfaction comes with caveats.” — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
“Kids do not appreciate subtlety in adults when they are trying to understand something.” — Stan Morris Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was a slave. I was sold in China in 2007 as a child at 13 years old. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid. — Bob Gibson Copy Share Image
