We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
My daughter was born when I was nowhere near where I am now, and she took me to another level. I said,… — IronE Singleton Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“Thank You, Lord, for showing me my hidden faults, for You treat me as Your dear child. Help me surrender to Your… — RBC Ministries Copy Share Image
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
“More than a third of deaths in children under five happen during the first month of life (about four million babies). Breastfeeding… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
It is the way a father holds his child's hand that makes his child feel safe. It is the way a father… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The young child asked, “Which one will win the fight?” And the grandfather replied, “Whichever one you feed.” If we replay and… — Kathy Obear Copy Share Image
We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and… — John Vasconcellos Copy Share Image
“Teachers were not allowed to beat children as they did in the past, although, Mma Ramotswe reflected, there were some boys-and indeed… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...As a child he had gone out for Halloween as a mummy, a vampire, a blue-and-green-swolen drowned boy, all kinds of sufferings… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
A very important part of writing for children is appearing at book festivals, and in libraries and schools. An important part of… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
“You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Always take the time to show compassion for those less fortunate, and there are many. Take the time to help a young… — Jack Lambert Copy Share Image
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Like so many doctors,” Rieff recalls, “he spoke to us as if we were children but without the care that a sensible… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the Gospel on the street corners and at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We make her bear and raise our children And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen We… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If you aren't talking to your kids about socialism, someone else is. So use car time, dinner time, tax preparation time, and… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
“When a person feels that he has not been able to make sense of his own life, he tries to make sense… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In a world where kids my age are popping Mollies with leather. Sitting on Tumblr, never outside or enjoying the weather. Can… — Tyler The Creator Copy Share Image
“2. You did not make your child spirited. There is a genetic factor to being spirited, but how one’s genes are expressed… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
“Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe… — David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough Copy Share Image
I have been lucky and have a tight relationship with my daughter even if I don't see her as much as I… — Lisa Maffia Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The story of my life could be told in a series of waffle snapshots. I spent childhood weekends watching the lid of… — Chris Morocco Copy Share Image
Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
