Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they had seven children, although my sister Paulene was stillborn.
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Af...
I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.
God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.
I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.
Sometimes in our attempt to give children what we did not have, we forget to give our children what we did have.
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.
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.
People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.
People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.'
I support Children's Hospital of Los Angeles through Disney Channel and Britti Cares International in support of children with various diseases and illnesses and donate my time with pride and dignity.
