A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once. - Mark Twain I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S Truman The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S Truman Do not blame your parents for not working hard enough to birth you with silver spoon in your mouth because tomorrow you will be a parent and your children will in turn blame you for not giving birth to them with the desired silver spoon. - Jaachynma N E Agu Once you understand this way, you will be able to...

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise. - Brian Andreas I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully. - Jo Brand I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with parents by another adult. - Louise Erdrich A little girl withou...

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children. - Gro Harlem Brundtland We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. - Anne Lamott The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry. - Mark Salzman

I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicket females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that. - Toni Morrison I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens. - J D Salinger In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly child...

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people. - Kareem Abduljabbar I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. - Barbara Bush Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember. - Louise Brown ...when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's. - Rick Riordan Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's. - Rick Ri...

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track. - Dinah Sheridan The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. - Dinah Sheridan

Don't just teach your children to read... Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. - George Carlin When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work? - Artur Davis Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church. Teach them that those blessings could come virtually no other way. - Jeffrey R Holland I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions. - Cheryl Ladd Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business. - Shelley Morrison If you teach your children how ...

I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it. - Jodi Picoult As a good parent or teacher, we should teach our children that failure is an opportunity for improvement and growth, rather than a blockade deterring us from our greatest potential. - Asa Don Brown Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. - Dan Quayle It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. - Jimmy Carter It's important to teach our children their heritage. Who are your ancestors? What were their traditions? Each of us has a story to tell. If these...

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. - Sherman Alexie I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning - Plato People aim for the stars, and they end up kike a goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd - Muriel Barbery You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on. - Bruno Bettelheim I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. - Stanley Kubrick When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating...

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn. - Elijah Cummings We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it. - Dorothy Height There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves - Margaret Mead If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime. - Carrie P Meek

My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation. - Gordon B Hinckley Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake. - Anne M Mulcahy

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. - Bruno Bettelheim I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood. - Francesca Lia Block I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years." - Erma Bombeck Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period. - Eric Braeden I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. - Nicholas Sparks We're not raising children with the love that we need to. - Bill Cosby Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. - Bill Cosby Mom s...

When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs. - Cindy Crawford True love, whether you live your life on the run or spend it in the same house where you raise your children, is never easy and it's certainly never safe. It's a risk we take believing the reward is greater than what we give up. - Rachel Higginson When I was about nine, my siblings and I fell out of our moving van at an intersection. My dad didn't notice for about five blocks. It was back before seat belts. It was also back before parents used any sort of common sense whatsoever. It was a time when you didn't raise your children. You just fed them and they got bigger. - Dina Kucera Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children. - Ryan Phillippe If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or t...

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track. - Dinah Sheridan The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. - Dinah Sheridan

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well. - Barbara Boxer But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife? - Ernie Hudson It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists. - Phyllis Schlafly

Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community. - Robin Hayes The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties. - James T Walsh I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch. - Burt Ward

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once. - Mark Twain Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's? - King Abdullah Ii Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others. - Keith Ablow What I can say is th...