All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.

Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.

The reason I'm not an alcoholic is I don't like to drink in front of the kids . . . and when you're away from them, who needs it?.

Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision.

Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child

When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

I remember as a child listening to comedic musicals and thinking they were a real riot. I had pretty questionable taste in comedy.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.

Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

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