I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.

We must have the love that exists among children, for with them love rules without any special purpose.

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will...

I wondered why so many gardens around the world focused on the healing power of plants rather than their ability to kill… I felt that most children I knew would be more interested in hearing how a...

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

{W}e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special... . In America, we had the 'parlor gift book'...

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.

What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.

He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found...

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the...

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen...

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more.

He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy...

Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were not for the undignified manner of getting them.

We have to actually choose a name, Kane murmured above her head. We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.

No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they're looking for....

You're bigger than I remember, she said stupidly.You too, he said. I also remember that you were beautiful.Memory does play tricks on us.No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful...

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the...

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete...

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.