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When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.
Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.
Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love.
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.
A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.
Well, what are we waiting for? ...She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.
I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.
Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.
Educate the children in your country well, and then sit and watch the rise of your country like a Sun on the horizon!
Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.
To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.
Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.
Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.
The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way.
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse?
A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
The child must come first above all else. And pace yourself every day. There is quite a lot you will have to give up.
Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.
People who are pro smacking children say, 'It's the only language they understand.' You could apply that to tourists.
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.
Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.
We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children.
We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.
When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.
I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.