Lorrie Moore Quote

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.

You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

I have outlived a few of the kids that I grew up with in Knowsley Village, Liverpool, UK. Two dropped dead at eighteen years of age from heart attacks! They lived across the road from each other and p...

Magic?" What did magic have to do with breaking into someone's store and stealing their stuff?"Don't you get it?" Peter said. "You're free now. You don't have to live by their rules anymore." Peter po...

It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The r...

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.