Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
To be without sure and safe friends in the world makes life not worth having; and whom can we be so sure of as of our children?
Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.
I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.
On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.
Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children.
That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
Giving public sanction to homosexual marriage ends up redefining marriage, and it's certain to harm children.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
My children are my whole life.
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.
The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.
I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children.
We went to church every Sunday. I do think it's my duty to give back. That's why I'm involved with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.
Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.
Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
I was well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic. I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine.
I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.
Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.
