I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children.
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not.
The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?
The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.
My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her - with the goal of saving him.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day.
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.
Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.
