On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

May we learn to say “thank you” to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!

This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish your own.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

If you ask children in the west where's God, they'd point to the sky. If you ask children in India, they point at themselves.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

Teach children tolerance. No one need surrender his or her own beliefs while extending tolerance to those with other beliefs.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

Educate yourself on what's going on around the world where children are dying. Educate yourself on what's going on in Africa.

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence

I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.

The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

I used to sell marijuana to my son's mom's new husband. And then I would take that money and give it to her as child support.

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