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A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test.
I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.
The primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home.
I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.
What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?
. . . children - not kids. Kids are goats. I've always spoken of my children as children.
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
If you can prevent one fight among your children, let it be the fight for your attention.
When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.
Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.
To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.
If I can't have my own mate and my own children, then I can at least have my own kingdom.
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.
What women need to understand is that you cannot save a child if you can't save yourself.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.
The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.
If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.
The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.
If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.
If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.
I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.
Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.
Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.
children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.
Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?
Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.