To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse. - Neal Barnard Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home. - Matt Blunt Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty. - Robert Casey The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it. - Carl Sagan There is child abuse, and there are such things as repressed memories. But there are also such things as false memories and confabulations, and they are not rare at all. Misrememberings are the rule, not the exception. They occur all the time. The...

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12. - Rowan Atkinson When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values. - Simone De Beauvoir When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same. - Boris Becker When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff. - Antony Beevor Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it. - Ron Benisrael When I was a chi...

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child. - Ronald Reagan I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice. - Michael Aston Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care. - Sam Brownback My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected. - Robert Casey The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb. - Robert Casey It is no...

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. - Mitch Albom It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it. - Mitch Albom We all know how to be a child. - Mitch Albom The truth is, part of me is every age. I'm a three-year-old, I'm a five-year-old, I'm a thirty-seven-year-old, I'm a fifty-year-old. I've been through all of them, and I know what it's like. I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when ...

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man. - Anna Quindlen And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient. - Lynn Redgrave

Zombies are the middle children of the otherworldly family. Vampires are the oldest brother who gets to have a room in the attic, all tripped out with a disco ball and shag carpet. Werewolves are the youngest, the babies, always getting pinched and told they're cute. With all that attention stolen away from the middle child Zombie, no wonder she shuffles off grumbling, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. - Kevin James Breaux We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. - Chuck Palahniuk Being an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child. - Jarod Kintz

It is the child that sees the primordial secret of Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. the child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret. - Lao Tzu It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? - Cesare Pavese

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W Bush Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! - Thomas Huxley To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand. - Zoltan Kodaly Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home. - Joyce Maynard You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim - Jeannette Walls

Men rarely manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. - Robert A Heinlein Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. - Robert A Heinlein the people of the united states were...spoiled children, who are begging for a frightening but just daddy to tell them exactly what to do - Kurt Vonnegut At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. - P J Orourke She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief. - George Saunders

Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. As you Like it. - William Shakespeare I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on. - Julia Glass She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood. - Simon Hoggart How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood. - Martin Luther The worst storyline I've ever been involved in I wasn't involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline. - Erika Slezak I feel like the second child feels like they have to do everything faster. - Tori Spelling I had this extraordinari...

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child. - George Crumb Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child. - Suzanne Farrell

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage. - Christina Applegate There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle. - Christina Applegate It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas. - Lemony Snicket A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child. - Bill Cosby My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia. - Maria Sharapova Mothe...

But I feel its beauty here and I know there is not a lovelier, more precious child in this world than you and your cousins. I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong, my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones. (Theo, Geary's Grandfather) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn. - Judy Blume Remember this, Precious Child...nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn. - Judy Blume I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children. - Thomas S Monson

Only children believe they're capable of everything. - Paulo Coelho I have an only child. She's so independent and good with adults. - Tim Allen I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child. - Woody Allen When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. - Steven Wright I had a quicksand box as a kid. I was an only child... eventually. - Steven Wright I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room. - David Copperfield I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, wit...

One Child: I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time. - Brian Andreas There is only one child in the world and the Child's name is All Children. - Carl Sandburg Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. - Georg Brandes He said, 'Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.' This was the love he should have felt for every soul in the world: all the fear and the wish to save concentrated unjustly on the one child. He began to weep.... He thought: This is what I should feel all the time for everyone. - Graham Greene Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other. Pg 225 - Lauren Destefano Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It ...

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right. - Orson Scott Card Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right. - Orson Scott Card Being an only child makes me the oldest child and the youngest child. And the middle child. - Jarod Kintz I've been the oldest child since before you were born - E L Konigsburg That night, [Black Dog] lay beside Henry, a...

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up. - Jim Clyburn 'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. - Dianne Feinstein We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers. - Bob Filner One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records. - Ruben Hinojosa If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limite...

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. - Pearl S Buck Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child. - Neal A Maxwell She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer...

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. - James Broughton Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original." Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy. - Jim Butcher My inner child is not wounded. - Shannen Doherty It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again. - Wynonna Judd

I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it. - Anna Benson I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up. - Johnny Depp When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good. - Harri Holkeri Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. - Barbara Kingsolver I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke. - Tea Leoni O...