When a child enters the world through you, it alters everything on a psychic, psychological and purely practical level.

Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.

It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.

My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

I'm the best animal lover in the world. There's nobody who takes care of their pets like me...... they are my children.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

I've punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I've also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!

What can I do to provide for my children that's really significant? The answer is to love their mother unconditionally.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up

I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

Breast cancer is not just a woman's issue - it affects all of us: the brothers, husbands, fathers, children and friends.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

Remember who you are. Don't compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

Donald Trump has filed so many bankruptcies and busted so many companies that his children now have receding heir lines.

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.

Theres a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Does your uncle need anything? A coffee? A latte?” “He needs someone to bear his illegitimate child if you’re interested

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.

Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

All of us basically want the same things: opportunity for our children, and prosperity for our families and communities.

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