I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet an...
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.
I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.
If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Mon...
Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.
We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.
. . Mrs. Lambchop sighed and shook her head. You're at the office all day, having fun, she said. You don't realize what I go through with the boys. They're very difficult.Kids are like that, Mr. Lambc...
All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.
And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.
Answer Professor Mandell’s letter when you get a chance and the patience. Ask him not to send me any more poetry books. I already have enough for 1 year anyway. I am quite sick of it anyway. A man wal...
Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying DALE'S OIL COMPANY. Another sign said CLOSED, but a light was on in th...
Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.
Converstations with a mother of five are education in patience.
Daddy, said the toddler, now seething with righteous indignation, you are a poo-poo head!Feigning outrage, JFK lowered his voice. John, he said, no one calls the President of the United States a poo-p...
First, I'm not getting married, so you can forget the wife. Second, if I was insane enough to get married, I wouldn't have kids. Third, if I was insane enough to get married and have kids, it would be...
He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn't matter what they thought of him.
He’d never wanted kids. Outside of priority boarding on an airline, he couldn’t see the upside to them. They took over your life and filled you with terror and weariness and people acted like having o...
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