“ There's a saying, 'Death hath a thousand doors to let out life; I shall find one.' But the children. That's what I struggle with.' He shook his head. 'Why the children? Ruta Sepetys
“ Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is noth… Caroline Kennedy
“ If walking into the responsibility of caring for eighteen children was difficult, walking out on that responsibility was almost impossible. The children had become a constant presence, little spinning… Conor Grennan
“ To receive children’s love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the most powerful emotional experiences available. Dennis Prager
“ That's the funny thing about children. When they were around, you wanted peace and quiet. A mere moment to yourself. You felt absolutely desperate to go more than three minutes without hearing the wor… Emily Liebert
“ The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift. Ron Fournier
“ Jake shrugged, in the way that only nine-year-old children can manage -- and usually male children at that, girls not being permitted the same kind of insouciance. Marie Brennan
“ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. Kahlil Gibran
“ When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights. Bell Hooks
“ You may give them your love but not your thougts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot vis… Kahlil Gibran
“ Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child’s insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence. Matshona Dhliwayo
“ Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person’s life must remain private for the preservation of one’s sanity is almost frivol… Aysha Taryam
“ Thanks to the nation's testing mania (which I like to call 'No Child Left Untested' rather than 'No Child Left Behind'), children are being barraged with a nonstop volley of standardized tests. From k… Laurie E. Rozakis
“ Remember not to complain about the matter but construct, compose, compass and conquer the matter Ikechukwu Joseph
“ No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out - a refrigerator, a mowing machine, a gentleman in evening dress - children never forget. For this reason, it was so important wha… Virginia Woolf
“ We could see that our mothers blackmailed us with self-sacrifice, even if we did not know whether or not they might have been great opera stars or toasts of the town if they had not borne us. In our i… Germaine Greer
“ I want to go swimming," the child said. She waited for opposition, but none came. So she took off her clothes, slowly and nervously. She glanced at her grandmother -- you can't depend on people who ju… Jansson
“ You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't. N.E. Bode
“ It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. That is because people speak coarsely in real life. Especially soldiers and hardworking men speak coarsely, and even our most sheltered children… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
