“I firmly believe that I have received the same child I was meant to receive, whether I gave birth or adopted. The… — Debra Shiveley Welch Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
“I’m a postwar child, Kate. We don’t talk up our achievements, and we don’t throw things away. It’s how we were brought… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Think through the well-meaning motivations of both your Dictator and your Wild Child, until you really understand that within their limited perspectives… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person's character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
“In thousands of little ways, we pull and push our children to grow up, hurrying them along instead of inviting them to… — Gordon Neufeld Copy Share Image
“Childhood disappears down a storm drain. It flows, then trickles, then vanishes, leaving some olfactory memory—of new tennis balls, Sunday-morning bacon, a… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
You can read the best experts on child care. You can listen to those who have been there. You can take a… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“I had a bizarre rapport with this mirror and spent a lot of time gazing into the glass to see who was… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even… — Steve Karagiannis Copy Share Image
“This is just the first day; you’ll get used to it. The rewards will come later, from the kids themselves–and from the… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials… — Caroline Pratt Copy Share Image
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“If parents take no heed of the great thoughts which move their age, they cannot expect to retain influence over the minds… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can't be lying to kids and expecting them not to do it and you're going out and doing the same things… — Bob Backlund Copy Share Image
Regardless of age, no one knows our children better than we do. So with having a child comes the responsibility of making… — Cynthia Bailey Copy Share Image
Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
“Zane, six, knows that AIBO doesn’t have a “real brain and heart,” but they are “real enough.” AIBO is “kind of alive”… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We tell our kids that policemen are good and God protects us and our country is noble, and at a certain point… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow — Thomas Bray Copy Share Image
“Here for a moment is a glimpse of my plan: All kids will be happy learning things. The wind will smell of… — Ian Dury Copy Share Image
The norm of unconditional parental love, I think, depends on the fact that we don't pick and choose the traits of our… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Oh my God, you are a child. If we leave you alone here, you'll freeze to death, you'll starve to death''. And… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to enter into a state of pure connection with your child, you can achieve this by setting aside any… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
