The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Louisa May Alcott

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

Fred G. Gosman

The problem with teaching children to be unmaterialistic is that they become impossible to bribe.

Alain de Botton

We have a secret in our culture, and it's not that birth is painful. It's that women are strong.

Laura Stavoe Harm

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan

I don't know what people are scared of. Maybe they think their children will be influenced, but I've got to tell you, I was raised by two heterosexuals. Everywhere I looked - heterosexuals. And they did not influence me. It's time we love people for who they are and let them love who they want.

Ellen DeGeneres