I love you because you're a child and you're scared.' You're going to hurt me in the end. You're quite mad.

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play

We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .

If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children.

By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.

It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.

If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school.

You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

Picking your favourite look is like picking your favourite child! I get so emotionally attached to each one.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid.

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

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