I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child. — Kellie Pickler Copy Share Image
Children key off their parents’ reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness. — Neil Kurshan Copy Share Image
Children, like animals, and believe me, that's a compliment in my world, feel the difference. They know where the truth lies. They… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The very nature of a child is to be active. They are learning, thinking seeing and doing beings. They are never sedentary.… — Meredith Pierce Copy Share Image
It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it.… — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do… — Marla Runyan Copy Share Image
It's easier to be a grownup than to be a kid. When you're a kid, you lie constantly and people are always… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Beyonce is a beautiful, elegant woman who is also a wonderful dancer. And her voice is sublime. Just like her husband, Jay-Z,… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
“The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of… — Wendy Mogel Copy Share Image
We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say… — Gary Myers Copy Share Image
Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child. — Dawn Angelique Copy Share Image
“A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.” — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child.” — Hark Herald Sarmiento Copy Share Image
“I know it's beyond what you can bear, child. You must not try to carry this alone.” — Rosslyn Elliott Copy Share Image
As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. — Lane Olinghouse Copy Share Image
“Though my body gets older, I still commune with the child inside.” — Lorin Morgan-Richards Copy Share Image
That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Either be a good parent to your career or just give your dream up for adoption.” — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
