“ On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down. Alan Hollinghurst
“ Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted. Mitch Albom
“ A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the b… Barbara Kingsolver
“ For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband. Aisha Tyler
“ I find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power, it wins, and it can continuously happen, so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They hav… Monica Denise Brown
“ I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by t… Taylor Hicks
“ I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I p… Victoria Beckham
“ For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you beli… Krista Tippett
“ I am blessed to have married the man that God sent me. He's loving, compassionate, strong and supportive of my children, family and career. I look forward to our lives together. Monica
“ It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of com… Victoria Osteen
“ My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do. Brene Brown
“ Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the pow… Marianne Williamson
“ Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great! Mehmet Murat ildan
“ But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest Hermann Hesse
“ The child's existence turned a plain world to riches. Her life raised up like this, the child giving point and purpose to each day, the care of him transforming her, widening and deepening her. Mary Costello
“ Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. Khaled Hosseini
“ If you need a reason to get involved in world politics, all you need to do is watch a playground of children for awhile. Imagine a world that happy and free all the time, that vision is the future wor… Laurance Kitts
“ So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. Sylvia Plath
