We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.
I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?
I'm glad never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it in another.' 'Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?' queried Valancy. 'Before it could be broken it must have fe...
To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good person I knew him to be— *that* was magical.
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Debts are like children; the smaller they are the more noise they make.
What children hear their parents say by the fireside, they repeat in the highway.
He who has children will never die of starvation.
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.
Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.
Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
I have no greater joy than to know that my children walk in truth.
There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.
