Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.

Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.

To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment.

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!

Whenever a woman strengthens the faith of a child, she contributes to the strength of a family - now and in the future.

Non lasciare che qualcuno cerchi di convincerti che i bambini non si portino dietro i loro rancori nella vita da adulti.

Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

It s one of nature s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us

In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch".