The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

Child-care costs are now the largest family expenditure in much of America, even exceeding the cost of housing.

We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.

What I really want for my children is that they be loved and that they be happy and that they lead a good life.

No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved

I might not have the ability to ever carry a child and I have this damn bag for the time being – but I'm alive.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.

I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

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