“When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.” — Harvey Stanbrough Copy Share Image
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together,… — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
“This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.” — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not too sure why I don't like change. Well, I do, it's a lot to do with my childhood, but I… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children -… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
“As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach… — Bryan Oftedahl Copy Share Image
Your Lord is Love: love Him and in Him all men, as His children in Christ. Your Lord is a fire: do… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“It’s not God I want, it’s someone in skin!" a child once cried out to his mother. With an almost unbearable honesty,… — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“They pushed and pushed for so long. They knew I was something dangerous, something different. Sooner or later, they had to know… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child. — Jet Li Copy Share Image
I got to the point where nothing made me happy. My children didn't bring me any joy. My wife didn't bring me… — Demond Wilson Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
“We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa. It was a… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you. — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
Since my childhood, I had a great liking for Karunanidhi and admired his writing skills. — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be. — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
Train up a child in the way he should go and even when he is old he will not depart from it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
“She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To create a society that is supportive of child-rearing parents is a role of the government, and we are also working to… — Yoshihide Suga Copy Share Image
Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium". — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside,… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
Being a Mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children go. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Among the good and decent men, some are unprepared for the surprises of life, and their good intentions run aground when confronted… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Everyone is moving at the same speed toward the future. But your children are moving at that same speed with their eyes… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
Since, I have become a parent... I feel if you sit down and get through your child and use one's understanding to… — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Certainly in the case of 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' if it makes children or adults a little more interested in Shakespeare, there's nothing… — Kelly Asbury Copy Share Image
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War. — Steve Schirripa Copy Share Image
