“The biggest irony was the man’s esteemed reputation as an advocate for children. Dante hadn’t had time to do in-depth research, but… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous.… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“We place such demands on our partners, and become so unreasonable around them, because we have faith that someone who understands obscure… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The bourgeois man is first and foremost fashioned and turned into a machine. He is happy even if he has become only… — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“But feel what happens in the soul when you imagine children saying to their parents, "What you gave me, first of all,… — Bert Hellinger Copy Share Image
We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I… — Ricky Whittle Copy Share Image
Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Human sociality is often assumed to be entirely a matter of culture, originating from the age of life when children are taught… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
My parents and my family really tried to maintain as much of a normal environment as possible. When I went home, it… — Keshia Knight Pulliam Copy Share Image
“We don’t necessarily need to know each other’s name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what… — Marta Mrotek Copy Share Image
It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing [my daughter] for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do… — Ayanna Pressley Copy Share Image
“In the process of helping children prepare to minister and in doing ministry together, important relationships can develop between child and adult.… — Catherine Stonehouse Copy Share Image
“We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes,… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“I don’t know anyone who has been handed only roses. We all encounter hardships. Some we see coming; others take us by… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
It's not about government telling people what to do. ... It's about each of us, in our own families, in our own… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“James Tallmadge of New York was the first to try to address this issue by limiting slavery in Missouri, and the Tallmadge… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“I had been here, hadn’t I, a long time ago? I was sure I had. Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We need our children to get onto the reading ladder: anything that they enjoy reading will move them up, rung by rung,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As secretary of education, a parent, and a former teacher and principal, I've seen that no matter a parent's political leaning, their… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“research has shown that many couples entering marriage do not have anything like a clear idea of what generally happens, with respect… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“adolescent who expresses dissident opinion more or less vocally can end up in a place like that. Some of the children arrive… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers.… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Hailey [as a character] was born when I left the courtroom and moved to New York for Cochran and Grace, my TV… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
“My daughter became my enemy when she had to choose between me and you. And you, my wife, you have been my… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives,… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image