Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.
In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing.
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.
Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.
This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.
Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.
Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.
Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.
For the entrance is low: we must stoop till we are no taller than children to get in.
Ever heard the tale of Neptune's Children?
