“ I have a theory about how she might have managed to pull off such a feat. It comes in the form of an equation: Love + Fear = Herculean Strength. It’s how mothers come to fling runaway motorcars from t… Franny Billingsley
“ Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make,” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird. Terry Pratchett
“ By Rachel Corrie, aged 10 — 1990I’m here for other children.I’m here because I care.I’m here because children everywhere are suffering and because forty thousand people die each day from hunger.I’m he… Rachel Corrie
“ Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeplyMust take great care they do not, Paddle too deeply.'Thus spake the awful aging coupleWhose heart the years had turned to rubble.But the little c… Stevie Smith
“ She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.Well! This is… Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
“ My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve. Karen Fowler
“ I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. J. Patrick Lewis
“ How is it?" I ask as we stroll towards the dressing rooms. "Working at the playground. That must be fun.""Sure, they're just adorable," she says, "For the first five minutes. And then I want to wring… Abby McDonald
“ The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch. Karen Maezen Miller
“ The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.… Vera Nazarian
“ Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually. Lydia Maria Francis Child
“ It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance. Dan Pearce
“ Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the list. Rather, it might have looked something like this:1. H Lionel Shriver
“ Independance grows out of a child's faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it. Kathleen Huggins
“ Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day. Brent L. Top
“ Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles. Mary Lydon Simonsen
“ If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up. Brigham Young
“ The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become. Eileen Kennedy-Moore
“ That was the tricky part. You poured inordinate amounts of time and attention and affection into your kids, but the result was indirect. You didn't point out a cat to your one-year-old and then watch… Katherine Center
“ Please, let them be little,‘Cause they’re only that way for a while.Give them hope, give them praise,Give them love every day.Let ‘em cry, let ‘em giggle,Let ‘em sleep in the middle,Oh, but let them b… Billy Dean
