Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
He who has a lot of money and no children is not rich; he who has many children and no money is not a pauper.
He who has no children has one sorrow, he who has children has a thousand sorrows.
Once it was the parents who taught their children to talk; now the children teach their parents to keep quiet.
When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.
Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!
A mother can more easily feed seven children than seven children can feed one mother.
I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and ...
"What is marriage, mother?" "Child, it is spinning, having children, making money, and weeping.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.
I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh, that's it. All I have to do is fall in love.' You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Chil...
I really try to focus on organizations, twofold, one that help people and/or beings that don't have other means of help. Particularly if they're hospitalized children, sick children, children that don't have homes, children that can't go to school, y...
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
A brick could be used to make the world safer for our children. Well, not our children, as I don't actually have any kids—but certainly your children. Skeptical? A brick could better protect your children than all the Federal government agencies co...
Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying...
