Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen.

I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

If you haven't saved, your child may have to work. But do what you can to NEVER take out student or parent loans.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.

I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

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