“ Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love, t… Virginia M. Axline
“ It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all. Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“ Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids. Magda M. Olchawska
“ Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures. Achy Obejas
“ Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as not… Jennifer Donnelly
“ By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a ‘child’, of being wholly subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet, does most… John Holt
“ I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born. Charles M. Schulz
“ It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself. Charles Dickens
“ The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time. Russell D. Moore
“ The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than f… Wendy Mogel
“ The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing. Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
“ One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see. Ezra Jack Keats
“ Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names. Trenton Lee Stewart
“ To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness. Kate Morton
“ You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came f… Marilynne Robinson
“ Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to say it. But the folds had already rippled flat and nothing was the same anymore...… Diana Wynne Jones
“ You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the way you see a table square or a Montclair lip-read. Kids today... you kids today somehow… David Foster Wallace
