Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing… — Graham Kendall Copy Share Image
“Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own… — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I had never before noticed that rain contained every color within itself, green as the fields, blue as heaven, white as a… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“You were the devil’s daughter even then, you just lacked the experience to fully express your natural outrageousness.” — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
I heard friends and strangers saying, "You don't look Arab - what are you supposed to be?" It really is a tired… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“They were happy, I thought. As a child, laughter is all you need as proof of happiness. As a child you don't… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
My father was a gruff Irishman who was unable to express feelings and always insisted we be tough. Being a parent, for… — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
“. . . the most potent reward for parenthood I have known has been delight in my fully grown progeny. They are… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“He led the way past the main house away from the slave cabins and other buildings, away from the small slave children… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving benefit, but the benefit is… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“I could give you children,” said Jack, sounding faintly affronted. “You’d have to tell me how many heads you wanted them to… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The more you love your children, the more care you should take to neglect them occasionally. The web of affection can be… — Dominique Sutton Copy Share Image
Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Boy is my wife stupid. It takes her and hour and a half to watch 60 minutes. My daughters no bargain either.… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
I have one brother who's five years older than me and he was a huge part of my childhood. — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married. — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey Copy Share Image
I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“I’m just happy to have experienced life; to have had a beautiful son and to have loved.” — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I like her calm, unwild, gentle as a sleeping child, and wonder as she lies, a fur ring, curled upon my… — Ian Serraillier Copy Share Image
As the father of a young daughter, it is important that the next generation of leaders in New Hampshire feel empowered to… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third. — Cloris Leachman Copy Share Image
I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child,… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“I’ll find a way. There must be a way. And I’ll take my children from you. The man who loves children! You… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they… — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
I feel like now my kids can run around and say, 'My mom was the Rock's daughter.' I don't have kids yet,… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem. — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
“At home there tarries like a lurking snake, Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled, A wily watcher, passionate to slake, In blood,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
As a child I qualified for free school meals, so I know I would have been in one of the families that… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
“A child should never be made to feel that sex and/or his/her sexuality is taboo or a mistake.” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
Every person's childhood story is unique, just like we are all meant to be unique. But the influence of surroundings play an… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image