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The Scribe"Under the wingsOf the feathered Goddess,And in the middleOf the three dancing women,The scribe comes aliveTo reveal mysteries hiddenThrough divine gifts givenThe scribe is drivenOn his sacred missionTo wake upAll the universe'sMen, women andHeavenly children.Under the seven rays of Aten,And from the age of just ten,The scribe comes aliveWith the fertile inkOf his luminous pen.Below the spectacle of the moon,And in the smile of the sun,The scribe is here to show usHow we are all one.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child
— Anna Freud, War And Children
He stood over her for as long as he could endure the cold, long enough for the boy tending the dead to pass twice on fingertips and toes. The boy's self-appointed mission was to keep all of their eyes closed, the dead. Otherwise he couldn't sleep, the boy. But he never did anyway, as far as the Agent could tell. Any hour, there he'd be, scuttling from body to body under his calf robe. Many nights when the Agent locked his door, it wasn't to keep the Piegan from stealing his tins and blankets, but to keep the boy's hands from covering his own eyes.
— Stephen Graham Jones, Ledfeather
I pray for my children. That they stay safe and make good decisions. That they be happy, thoughtful, and caring human beings. That they have the strength to get up if they fall down.
— Terry McMillan, The Interruption of Everything
When you do choose to speak," she told me, "speak truths.
— Lisa Graff
Who cries for the children, I do!
— Ronnie James Dio
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
— Charles Lamb
This is no tall story. Nor is it a short story. Indeed, a story cannot be measured, for their realities stretch far beyond a page or one person’s life.
— Leah Broadby, A Dreadful Daughter's Spells
Twenty good friends cannot live together in twenty good years”. We were more than twenty who left the school and the simple statement was beginning to echo hard in my ear, as if grandma actually had that particular day in mind. Pg.100
— Obehi Peter Ewanfoh, Still Owing Me Goodbye
The feast was seen everywhere and in everything. Some women in semi-dresses were busy doing many things at once. Domestic animals were crying their last, with knives on their throats. They too were celebrating the feast in their own ways.Pg.93
— Obehi Peter Ewanfoh, Still Owing Me Goodbye
Each child is a unique person, so raise your child taking this fact intoconsideration.
— Eraldo Banovac
There is no better way to influence children than being their role model.
— Eraldo Banovac
Teachers should not fear going off plan if a better learning opportunity presents itself. Plans are plans, but children are living, breathing, creative people, who deserve to have their questions answered and original ideas explored.
— Adele Devine, Literacy for Visual Learners: Teaching Children with Learning Differences to Read, Write, Communicate and Create
The man jumped and stared at the two little girls. "What are you doing here?" he demanded.  "We live here, in the caretaker's cabin," Rosetta answered. "Do you need help?"  "Do I need help?" he roared. "What do you think, you little snippet?"  "What's a snippet?" asked Bianca innocently.
— Sarah Brazytis, Our Christmas Bear
Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child.
— Steve Maraboli
A child, without toxic interference, will naturally become the person they are meant to be. André Chevalier
— Nikki Sex, Abuse
I urge you to be teachers so that you can join with children as the co-collaborators in a plot to build a little place of ecstasy and poetry and gentle joy
— Jonathan Kozol
As adults we get so entrapped in illusions and trivia, that we forget the true essence of life; and so often we need to connect with children, to understand that it is the little, priceless joys that make life beautiful and worthy.
— Manprit Kaur
Opinions are like ugly children … despite it all you love your own.
— Scott Hutchins, A Working Theory of Love
We’d never handled guns so when we saw a person handle it and it went bang, we knew that thing killed. We called it the harmful stick. We learned quickly that if somebody points the stick at you, you die.
— Alephonsion Deng, They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
Parents have no clue how many things they never teach their children. Their children are simply born with those things.
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
... the kids, they took us places we never would have gone to on our own. Some times were great... some times were wretched... And there was still no guarantee, no bulletproof glass, safety net, steel-toed boots, anything at all that would promise more good moments... so was it enough? It was.
— Mary J. Koral, The Year The Trees Didn't Die
For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.
— Na'ama Yehuda, Communicating Trauma: Clinical Presentations and Interventions in Traumatized Children
I believe that the number 1 most important problem in the United States right now, is the fact that kids will go to school and shoot other kids. And that kids get so hurt at school and at home, that they feel the need to do that. And then, the fact that people are not identifying this as the number one problem of greatest importance to attend to, is the second most important problem!
— C. JoyBell C.
Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.
— Angela Carter, Love
It is the responsibility of parent to love and care for their children.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
What makes you think children like childish things? Don't tell them how to be children. They want to grow up.
— M.B. Goffstein
Set example to your children, in speech and in conduct.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Sometimes I think as adults we think of them as — because they're small in size that they're small in all ways — and they're not. They have big feelings, and they have big eyes, they see things, they hear things, they're living life just the way an adult does and I think sometimes as adults we forget that.
— Kevin Henkes
Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown.
— Bill Holm
Yes, we can be assured that if we don't change and turn our lives around to become like a little child again we will definitely not get a look at the fulness of our purpose, let alone get in.
— Donald Pillai
In most stories she knows, children have a mother and a father, like Iphigenia had Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and Helen had Leda and Zeus. Sometimes they have teachers too, but not always, and they never seem to have sergeants.
— M.R. Carey
The crimes of children reproduce themselves, closing their victims in cages built of nightmares.
— Miri Yū
However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.
— Na'ama Yehuda, Communicating Trauma: Clinical Presentations and Interventions in Traumatized Children
Candy. He spoke of candy. Was he still in the child's world where candy stood for something sweet enough to hold back tears? I had grown older, and had lost enthusiasm for childish delights. I wanted what every teenager wants -- freedom to develop into a woman, freedom to have full control over my life! Though I tried to tell him this, my voice had dried up along with my tears.
— V.C. Andrews
Love and advise your children unconditionally.
— Eraldo Banovac
Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?
— Sunday Adelaja
The task for parents and teachers is not to teach, it is how to inspire the people of youth to find their desire to learn.
— Hasse Jerner
In the living room, the consensus among the guests was that Scotty’s looks favored his father, but the Judge was quick to disagree: ‘He doesn’t look a thing like me. He looks like an hors d'oeuvre.’Hearing this, Joan thought the following, and pledged it to herself, as both prayer and promise: You will be loved, Scotty Ocean.And while the guests laughed at the Judge’s remark, Joan leaned over and softly whispered to her newborn son, 'You will be loved.
— Peter Hedges
How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?
— Josh Malerman, Bird Box
If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live. I'd rather my kid die with a wild fire in his/her heart than with a malfunctioning or drained out fuse. Always allow your kids to keep humming with dreams and ideas that fuel their passions. Never tell them something is impossible. If you have a really strong determined kid, they'll go out there killing themselves trying to do the unachievable just to prove you wrong. And if you have a weak kid, they'll give up on life and settle for bagging Cokes and potato chips at your local grocery store.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even more so to remember that the men, women, and children all involved in and affected by this era were not just statistics: they were people just like we are, with the same hopes, dreams, and very imminent fears.
— J. Neven-Pugh, press release
When a mother gives birth, her body is not only able to provide nourishment to her baby, but is also designed to be its own personal medicine cabinet. Breast milk is the best and most natural food you can give a child, and applying it sparingly on a baby's head, eye or skin will eliminate cradle cap, acne, rashes, dryness, and even eye infections.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous habit.’‘I agree, Grandmamma.
— Roald Dahl, The Witches
We all ought to be like little children in the way we treat each other as human beings; quick to forgive, slow to offend, children are friends to each other irrespective of their gender, religion, and color.
— Paul Bamikole
I have caressed a small child’s hair, and in doing so, know there is a God.
— Lewis Bryan
Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.
— Asa Don Brown, The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview
I was greeted by the Ulmers’ eleven-year-old daughter, a girl of remarkable poise. Mrs. Ulmer was busily typing a manuscript that needed to make the evening mail and after welcoming me, in a very friendly manner, she returned to work. There were two other children and Mr. Ulmer, who was writing the manuscript just as his wife was typing it. The youngest child, who could have been no more than five or six, had the task of relaying the handwritten pages from his father to his eldest sister, who would quickly scan them for errors, and from her to his mother. The middle child, a little girl of seven or eight, lay on the floor with a large dictionary and would look up words when called upon by her parents or sister.
— Robert Bruce Stewart, The Birth of M.E. Meegs
Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.
— Asa Don Brown, The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview
Our children need to assimilate the wonder that is India when they are young, so that they imbibe the principles of our founding fathers and continue to build this great nation.
— Shallu Jindal
And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?
— Lois McMaster Bujold
From Shore To ShoreOur Message of Love & PeaceTo ALL OUR Kids
— Widad Akreyi
Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural neatness which the housewife sees somehow shadowing her familiar furniture, it was largely possible to disregard, or not-quite-hear, Sally, but in the car I was entirely what I believe is called a captive audience.
— Shirley Jackson
Books can be shelved or packed away, but little girls shouldn't be.
— Janiece Hopper, Cracked Bat
Felix wasn't sure of his limits, if he had limits. After he'd been dead a while, he began to suspect he could swim to the bottom of the oceans. Beyond that. He suspected that he could swim so far down that he'd eventually go through the center of the earth and come out the other side. He could swim into the clouds, into the stars. Maybe there were ghosts on the other planets. Maybe there were ghosts laughing and splashing each other with the heat of the sun. He wasn't brave enough to find out.
— Lauren DeStefano, A Curious Tale of the In-Between
Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart.
— Lauren DeStefano, A Curious Tale of the In-Between
No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose.multiplication of his children, He goes ahead to expatiate on his blessings to us
— Sunday Adelaja
Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.
— Patricia Briggs
Then how about this: Remember Austin Gollaher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.
— Deborah Hopkinson, Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale
Some people behind leave a legacy, some leave behind children. Which would you prefer?
— Mary Sage Nguyen
We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans are very unimaginative in that sense. We aren't equipped for the possibility that they might be worse. But I guess that would be asking too much. It must be an evolutionary stopgap - if we were all so specifically, vividly aware of what might go horribly wrong, we would none of us have children at all.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction.
— Laura Schlessinger
I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies...
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The fantasy of life;When I was a child, I said ‘I can’t wait to grow up’.When I was adult, I said ‘I miss childhood adventures’.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.
— Corrie ten Boom, Father Ten Boom, God's Man
How silly men were! Their part in procreation was so unimportant; it was the woman who carried the child through long months of uneasiness and bore it with pain, and yet a man because of his momentary connection made such preposterous claims. Why should that make any difference to him in his feelings towards the child?
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
I cannot overemphasize the impact our childhood has on our ability to be honest because we live out what we learned as children in our adult relationships.
— Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
— Enid Blyton
The only thing weaker than a toddler's handshake is their immune system.
— Jim Gaffigan
I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a book of its own world. He wanted a son who did what he had done: swam and boxed and played rugby, and drove cars at speed with abandon and joy, but that was not what he had wound up with.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Strict parents create sneaky kids.
— Bryant A. Loney, To Hear The Ocean Sigh
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.You might give them your love but not your thoughts,For they have their own thoughts.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Awakening is about introducing a child to sensory experiences, including tastes. It doesn't always require the parent's active involvement. It can come from staring at the sky, smelling dinner as it's being prepared, or playing alone on a blanket. It's a way of sharpening the child's senses and preparing him to distinguish between different experiences. It's the first step toward teaching him to be a cultivated adult who knows how to enjoy himself. Awakening is a kind of training for children in how to profiter - to soak up the pleasure and richness of the moment.
— Pamela Druckerman, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
The Prayer that is answered is not of many words, but of Oneness.
— Vivian Amis, I Am: The Key to Manifesting
The various forms of electromagnetic radiation were extensively proven harmful to human health decades ago. The air is electrified, the ground is electrified, the water is electrified, your metal mattress is electrified, your metal under wired bra is electrified, your children are electrified, and you are electrified. Unfortunately, we are in the electromagnetic radiation epidemic.
— Steven Magee, Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together.
— Sima Mittal
Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The significance of a revolution will be known after the days have gone past us. When the children of the coming years wake up and like the albatross glide across the azure sky.The freedom to live a life of meaning and joy.
— Avijeet Das
It may be possible that Leukemia in children is linked to the location of the fuse board and the electrical meter on the home.
— Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics
Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Oh no-"she began.It shocked her to be right. Parent's were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arriety knew and enjoy saying it- knowing always they were safe and wrong.
— Mary Norton
If we loved children, we would have a few. If we had them, we would want them as children, and would love the wonder with which they behold the world, and would hope some of it might open our eyes a little. We would love their games, and would want to play them once in a while, stirring in ourselves those memories of play that no one regrets, and that are almost the only things an old man can look back on with complete satisfaction. We would want children tagging along after us, or if not, then only because we would understand that they had better things to do.
— Anthony M. Esolen, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi
— Jody West, Memory Land: A Place Where Love Lives On
If you stand a Yard away from God Today, you will see your kids standing a Mile away from God Tomorrow.
— Santosh Thankachan
Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years.
— Anne Lamott, Some Assembly Required
Fornication and adultery unleash destructive consequences into a person's life:• Poverty
— • Lack of perception
Never apologize for the good in your life. People who try to make you feel badly because you have been blessed are consumed by self-loathing. Wear your accomplishments proudly, be it your career, your relationship, your children, your success. True friends will bask in the glow of your shine, not pray for darkness to fall.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
Standing side by side children with our heads together, we are trying to understand their learning based on what we observe as they use the social, technical, symbolic, and material resources at their disposal.
— Denny Taylor, From the Child's Point of View
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being generated in great numbers for certain destruction. Put the case that he often saw children solemnly tried at a criminal bar, where they were held up to be seen; put the case that he habitually knew of their being imprisoned, whipped, transported, neglected, cast out, qualified in all ways for the hangman, and growing up to be hanged. Put the case that pretty nigh all the children he saw in his daily business life he had reason to look upon as so much spawn, to develop into the fish that were to come to his net,––to be prosecuted, defended, forsworn, made orphans, bedevilled somehow.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Without warning he had become witness to something that stretched back through the eons, ties both elastic and enduring, surpassing death, surpassing life. She was his child. It was as simple as that and that complex.
— Kim Harrison, Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
— Margaret Mead
Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
My mother is changing history. She is making her balalaika-smashing mother into a heroine. Does she want me to do the same for her? Is that what good children do for their parents? What about good writers?
— Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure
Dietary patterns are set at a very early age—somewhere between four and eight years old. The research shows that children who have established a healthy diet are healthier in the longer range and less likely to develop cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and obesity.
— Gabriel Cousens M.D., Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Guide to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Happy Children
Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God
— Sunday Adelaja
True children of God experience pleasure in giving.
— Sunday Adelaja
To us, they are not so much who they are as who they will become.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
As the adults, we are the ones who set the stage for vitality, love, or disharmony in the home. We set ourselves up for one or the other, and our children take their cues from us.
— Gabriel Cousens M.D.
Try as we might, we cannot force our children to reach their full potential. Theirs is the life that they alone must live. The role of the parent is to prepare the most fertile soil and appropriately water the seedling so it can most fully blossom.
— Gabriel Cousens M.D., Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Guide to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Happy Children
Research shows that what works and is healthy for adults also works well for children, if adjusted to be age-appropriate. Children, like adults, do not suffer from a deficiency of white sugar, white flour, junk food, or processed foods. A growing child as well as an adult is hurt by junk foods and benefited by healthy foods.
— Gabriel Cousens M.D., Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Guide to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Happy Children
In our commitment to raise healthy, conscious children and create a healthy world, it is hard to understand how people can choose to spend money for something that not only does not work, but poisons humans and the environment.
— Gabriel Cousens M.D., Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Guide to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Happy Children
She hadn’t dreamed a time would ever come when someone might want to emulate her talk or behavior. Consequently, it made her feel tight and strange inside to hear her words on the kid’s lips. A small part of her was astonished and secretly flattered. But a larger part was appalled.
— Maggie Osborne, The Promise of Jenny Jones
Parenting is a gift for adults’ spiritual growth spurts, and it’s a challenge to think of anything else that fills a home with more laughter!
— Gabriel Cousens M.D., Conscious Parenting: The Holistic Guide to Raising and Nourishing Healthy, Happy Children
Trying to understand her teenage daughter’s behavior was like trying to listen to a recording of a symphony whose volume vacillated unpredictably from barely audible to deafening. She couldn’t hear the music, and all she wanted to do was leave the room.
— Sonja Yoerg, House Broken
The knowledge of God that a person has, influences not only his own life, but also the lives of his children.
— Sunday Adelaja
The house fills with the particular atmosphere that accompanies peacefully sleeping children: a rich narcotic silence that creeps down the stairs and twines itself around the table legs.
— Harriet Lane
And please punish Jenny. You could strike her dead. Amen.” Jenny blinked. “I’m no expert on this, but… are you supposed to pray for someone to be struck dead?
— Maggie Osborne
I felt empty a lot and I sometimes had a sense—and I know this sounds strange—that I really had no existence as my own person, that I could disappear and no one would notice or remember that I had ever existed. It is a terrifying thing to live with. I kept myself busy to avoid that feeling, because somehow being busy made me feel less empty.
— John William Tuohy, No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible...
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.
— Nikki Sex, Bound and Freed Boxed Set
The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen... The desert is beautiful," the little prince added. And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams... "What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well..." I was astonished by a sudden understanding of that mysterious radiation of the sands.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
— The Little Prince
Our culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember from that time of our lives: Children know that this world can be hard on them, harder than it is on adults. They are physically weaker than adults, financially dependent, and in times of danger, nothing clarifies our thinking more than an awareness of our extreme vulnerability.
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
Education is our path to change. Minds and hearts are brightened via learning.
— Galit Breen, Kindness Wins
I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat...
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.
— Alison Bechdel
No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither return it, nor value, nor understand it.
— Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep.
— John Verdon
This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed...
— The Little Prince
Little Red Riding Hood was stalked
—  Cinderella was abused
God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs of women. As such, an obvious strategy for the devil would be to sabotage the womb to cut down the size of this godly army.
— Theresa Pecku-Laryea, Hannah's Song
I snap and storm around and then spend long nights thinking of the most damaged adults I know and wondering if my particular brand of maternal fuckups are how they ended up like that.
— Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue
He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident effort on teaching their fledglings to fly – yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child’s education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think.From the first catch-phrases flung at a child to the last, it is like a series of shocks to freeze his motor, to undercut the power of his consciousness. “Don’t ask so many questions, children should be seen and not heard!” – “Who are you to think? It’s so, because I say so!” – “Don’t argue, obey!” – “Don’t try to understand, believe!” – “Don’t struggle, compromise!” – “Your heart is more important than your mind!” – “Who are you to know? Your parents know best!” – “Who are you to know? The bureaucrats know best!” – “Who are you to object? All values are relative!” – “Who are you to want to escape a thug’s bullet? That’s only a personal prejudice!”Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival – yet that was what they did to their children.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I know now it is children who accept life
—  grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.
But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?
— Ramez Naam, Crux
When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their parents, and explains why children's books are a very hot and lucrative industry. Instead of telling your child how to become a compassionate citizen of the world, or how to live a meaningful existence by being a positive asset to humanity, you are conditioned by society to simply read your kid a fairytale.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We have to HIDE from each other because we think that we are the only ones BROKEN. We think we're the only ones whose original selves we ground up and smashed under the jack-booted heel of cultural lies and superstition, patriotism, war lust, war hunger, and a denial of AGGRESSION AGAINST CHILDREN THAT IS THE FOUNDATION OF CULTURE. Culture is everything that is NOT TRUE. If it's true, it's called 'math' or 'science' or 'facts'. Culture is the Stockholm syndrome we have with the historical lies that are convenient to the rules. We love the lies, because we don't think we can be loved if we don't.
— Stefan Molyneux
The answer to prayers is for the appointed time. God’s honour is at stake to response to the supplications of His Children in His timing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Road Taken
Then there are all of those children, the ones who aren’t resilient. The ones who slowly, quietly die. I think the difference is that the kids who bounce back learn to bear a little bit more than they thought they could, and they soon understand that the secret to surviving foster care is to accept finite disappointments while never losing infinite hope. I think that was how Donald survived as long as he did, by never losing his faith in the wish that tomorrow would be better. But as time went by, day after day, the tomorrows never got better; they got worse, and he simply gave up. In the way he saw the world, pain was inevitable, but no one ever explained to him that suffering was optional.
— John William Tuohy, No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care
...but oh, it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, and after all that, nobody comes to see them. I feel so bad, but what can you do? Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors . . . No, it isn't.
— Fannie Flagg
The secret of happiness lies in the lifestyle of a child who lives in present
—  past and future are only the grammar thing for him.
To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth, Your Child's Health Abroad: A Manual for Traveling Parents
Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people.
— The Little Prince
What was she dreaming about, Mrs. Ramsay wondered, seeing her engrossed, as she stood there, with some thought of her own, so that she had to repeat the message twice––ask Mildred if Andrew, Miss Doyle, and Mr. Rayley have come back?––The words seemed to be dropped into a well, where, if the waters were clear, they were also so extraordinarily distorting that, even as they descended, one saw them twisting about to make Heaven knows what pattern on the floor of the child's mind.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
— The Little Prince
We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again.Her bad heart, I noticed, did not force her to abstain from smoking, or from eating large portions of puddings. Every time I heard her opening how she could not carry anything heavy, I thought sourly "except yourself".
— Toni Maguire, Don't Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
— The Little Prince
To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself.
— Julia Glass, Three Junes
You mustn’t throw them away. Let me have them.
— Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama
What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.
— Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama
Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?
— Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama
Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable
— Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama
I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.
— Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama
I don't want to sew.How else will the buttons get onto the coat?
— Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama
We all die one day, but jewels never fade or perish. Through our children we live. That’s how we cheat death.
— Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama
That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.
— Christopher Bollen, Orient
All of us were once children, but only some of us remember that
— Steven Aitchison
To all you parents out there, don't make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.
— Lisa Bedrick, For Christian Women
When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Y'all know how much I love you? "Infinity and back again," I say the way I've said it a million times. And then, daddy says to me, "go on and add a little bit more to that.
— Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
Children are being killed, because some "adults" think life is a game.Something is amiss.When children shoot up other children in school, it's a national tragedy, and a week of mourning.When grown men are killing unarmed young, yes unarmed young, it bespeaks the leagues of fear residing in these men's hearts; that they've created a world in which they themselves have become useless.Then it makes front page, and it becomes business as usual.Something is amiss here.If adults don't truly grow up, then their young may never get the chance.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children’s natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression and feelings of helplessness that all too often reach pathological levels.
— Peter Gray
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
— Ivan Turgenev
The literature of America should reflect the children of America.
— Lucille Clifton
We like to see our future through our children
—  they are the reflection of the best of ourselves.
...that the decline in reading among children was largely the fault of their parents. Parents these days don't read books, themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren't readers, however, they have no idea what to give their children. That's why they cling to the recommendations from the Ministry of Education. Those books are all insufferably boring and, as a result, the kids learn to hate books. It's a vicious cycle with no end in sight.
— Keigo Higashino
Remember, Little Ones, everything is not important all the time. Only living is important all the time. Not things. Not money. Not more things and more endless money. Spend well the quality of your time. And yes, be greedy with your hours. If only to then give those hours away as the most precious gifts you have to offer to yourself, your family, and your friends.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to one's unwanted children. What a fate - to grow rotund and unseemly, to lose my self-love, to think in terms of milk, oatmeal, nurse, diapers. ...Dear dream children, how much more beautiful you are, dazzling little creatures who flutter (all dream children must flutter) on golden, golden wings.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
— Frank A. Clark
a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
What are you doing?” Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flashcubes, glittering as they were cascaded through the breeze. “See, don’t be afraid of the glass, it can’t hurt us,” Mandy laughed, spectacularly eccentric, her eyes reflecting the fallen glass.“I wasn’t afraid of the glass, but this isn’t a very secluded place that you just decided to vandalize,” Alecto cautioned, smiling despite his words. Before Mandy could reply, she heard loud whispering in the air, behind the trees… it sounded like a group of people, all whispering in unison… “Somebody’s out there,” she exclaimed nervously.“Yeah, you’re right,” Alecto replied. Suddenly a sharp new vibrancy seemed to fill his eyes and he smiled coldly, taking the tree branch from Mandy and rapidly smashing in all of Mrs. Matthias’ stained glass house windows with it. Blue, green, yellow, red, turquoise, purple and an array of other colors showered through the sky noisily, sounding like wind chimes and crashing waves. “They’ll go away,” he told her, glancing up at the sky.“…Alecto, do you like me?” Mandy questioned, holding out her arms like a lopsided scarecrow as the glass fell through her dark red hair.“Yeah, sure,” he answered.“Will you be my friend, then? A real friend, not just another person who feels sorry for me?” Mandy asked.“…Alright, Mandy Valems,” Alecto agreed.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
A day without your child is like a day without sunshine
—  a month without your child is like a month without laughter
If Mom is convinced that ballet lessons are a must, she shouldtake them.Although it may look odd to see a thirty-year old woman hang- ing onto a bar and flinging a slightly plump leg in the air, the sight is not as pathetic as seeing her seven-year old daughter grimly going through such motions just to please her mother, when she would prefer to be at home designing new doll clothes.Although some parents are never quite ready to accept this fact, the child is not one of our possessions. We don’t own him; we never will. We gave birth to his body; he may share some of our physical characteristics; but he does not inherit our desires.He’s a different person, a separate entity, with his own likes and dislikes.It’s a grave mistake to try to override a child’s power of choice in what he wants to be and do. Some parents do this in an attempt to live their lives through the child.
— Ruth Minshull
Don’t have kids until you’re ready. And when you do have them, have them all the way. They aren’t like some Cadillac that you can turn back into the dealership after three years.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Don’t spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren’t stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
We cannot live without meaning, that would preclude any sense of identity, any hope, any future.
— Carlina Rinaldi
I wish to resist the temptation to kiss...By super magic animals (Song: The Temptation)A visual poem about unfulfilled love...
— Super magic animals
Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
I admired how she knew, well before I did, that the point of a child is not what you hope he will accomplish in your name but the pleasure that he will bring you, whatever form it comes in, even if it is a form that is barely recognizable as pleasure at all - and more important, the pleasure you will be privileged to bring him.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
CAUSE AND EFFECTYou can give a man who has never given you a good word,Volumes of knowledge.And you can give a man who has never given you a gift,A thousand gifts.You can give that same man who has never given you a blessing,A thousand blessings.And you can offer that same man who has neverOffered a hand to help you grow,Seeds to help him grow a garden.And while you have never seen true kindness from his direction,You still offer to help push him up.And in the end,He only wants to be the hand that pulls you down.Do not worry, my friends.Cause and effect was written by the stars of the universe.He who passes suffering onto othersWill also have that suffering passed onto his own children.Gifts he feels he should have in the next lifetime will be unobtainable.And the help he needs to grow in the next lifetime will be unavailable.And the people he cuts down that were good to him,Will cut him down in the next lifetime.What goes around does come back again,Even through your children.There is a vibrational effectIn every action,Just as there isA vibration that ringsFrom every letterIn every word.No cause occurs without effectAnd no effect occurs without cause.No unjust action goes without penaltyAnd no action or thoughtFlows unnoticedThroughoutThe universe.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.
— Shannon L. Alder
Why do you talk all the time?” I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully.“I think it’s ’cause I don’t know any big words, like you and Mummy,” she said, just in time to pull me out of my magazine again, “so I have to use lots and lots of little ones.
— Theodore Sturgeon, The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume III: Killdozer!
You stupid piece of warm bacon.
— Hugh Lofting
Her gaze shifted away. "I don't remember my dreams anymore." It was like she was confessing a dirty secret. And maybe it was, because even though he hated the dreams, each time he had them, he was with his parents again. Hearing their laughter. Watching them live. But when he woke up they were really gone.
— Caroline Hanson, Love is Darkness
It makes no sense rushing to become a parent if you are not going to be a good one. No child deserves anything less than unconditional love and positive guidance. Our nation and the world as a whole desperately need some generations of well nurtured children.
A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Love your kids and just be there for them. You don't have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that's too much. All they want is to be assured that there's a home fire cooking, that there are two foremen and a rulebook, and that there's someone to tuck them in at night.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.
— Ian McEwan, The Child in Time