Quotes About Children

Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

It could take them to the places in the books. All they had to do was to point to a picture and wish to be there. Jack and Annie visited the time of

Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

Dear Reader, Did you know there's a Magic Tree House® book for every kid?

Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

We need to stop allowing the unsupported testimony of children who are of an age where they can barely distinguish fantasy and reality.

Never vote for a candidate whose campaign promises include 'doing more for children.

By the time children are ten years old, generally speaking, they've learned to eat like the people around them. Once food prejudices are set, it is no simple task to dissolve them. In a separate study, Rozin presented sixty-eight American college students with a grasshopper snack, this time a commercially prepared honey-covered variety sold in Japan. Only 12 percent were willing to try one. So

The other problem with classroom-based efforts to change eating habits was that children don't decide what's for dinner. Mead and her team soon realized they had to get to the person they called the "gatekeeper"—Mom.

As Diana talked openly with my children and me, she made the statement that has defined her forever in my mind: "My boys mean everything to me. They're my life.

Even if they were to leave Europe, and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the dæmon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth, who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror. Had

We were alone and starved for love. Kids that lived in a world full of hate.

Our children can play together…while my boy kills yours.

I could see that if the standoff continued for at least a few more hours, lives would be saved, all of them or most of them. There would be no attack and the children and their parents

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

When you think about it, it is rather strange that liberated, freethinking people, when their children reach the age of five, send them off to a sort of prison for the next twelve to sixteen years.

genetically different population, so that she can have offspring with varied genes and little risk of inbred diseases. But perhaps she – and T-shirt-sniffing people – are actually doing something that makes sense in terms of the blood-group story. Remember that, when making love in a time of cholera, an AA person is best off looking for a BB mate, so that all their children will be cholera-resistant ABs.

Besides, a million years of natural selection shaped human nature to be ambitious to rear successful children, not to settle for contentment: people are programmed to desire, not to appreciate.

Eating with children at a restaurant is like eating with a live grenade. It's going to explode every time. You just don't know when.

We heard her come halfway up the stairs, where she must have seen the bedroom light on. Again, the normal parent reaction would have been to say something like, You had better come out this moment or I am releasing the tiger! But Debbie was not a normal parent, so we heard her gigle and creep away, saying, Shhh! Rachel! Come with Mommy! Stuart is busy!