A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
“Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain. We often sing lullabies to our children that we ourselves may sleep. All our… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I would have written 'Brown Girl Dreaming' if no one had ever wanted to buy it, if it went nowhere but inside… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“All the games were selected for them by supervisors and had to have some useful, educational purpose. The children learned these new… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
On a fundamental level - I know so many women in their 30s who didn't get married, or they did and it… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
I wanted kids to have context for seeing the horrible footage of 9/11. I wanted them to feel the patriotism that united… — Jewell Parker Rhodes Copy Share Image
While the One Child Policy has been effective in drastically reducing Chinese birth rates, the measures adopted in its name have required… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
“Fun is the cheapest and best medicine in the world for your children as well as for yourself. Give it to them… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
“So what is the way of raising a child? At a young age, said the judge, they should be put in a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The first time that he saw her it was her beautiful face, He fell in love at first glance though he was… — Dave Bennett Copy Share Image
Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
You live with someone, you make a commitment to honor them, respect them, and love them, and if you're going to have… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
There are so many unsung heroes in communities across America who demonstrate unconditional love and support by taking on the responsibility of… — Leigh Anne Tuohy Copy Share Image
Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Patients who have suffered appalling medical negligence, abused children ignored by social services, mistreated residents of care homes - they have all… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we look down… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“As I come to understand the many talents and characteristics of women, I realize how needed their strengths are in this dispensation.… — Barbara W. Winder Copy Share Image
What does the enemy have to gain by convincing you to never deal with your past because your mind will never make… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“THE HANDS FREE PLEDGE I’m becoming Hands Free. I want to make memories, not to-do lists. I want to feel the squeeze… — Rachel Macy Stafford Copy Share Image
Those who criticize, they desire our blood not our pain. But still I must achieve I must seek truth in all things.… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Fathers are essentially different from mothers because we were all once in our mother's bodies, are born out of those bodies, and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“The memory of his childhood suddenly grew dim. He tried to call forth some of its vivid moments but could not. He… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I think trauma gets a reductive treatment. We tend to think only violence or molestation or total abandonment qualify as "childhood trauma,"… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“The sands are the children’s great resort. They cluster there, like ants: so busy burying their particular friends, and making castles with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Many Japanese kids don't express themselves. They would rather express themselves in a fantasy world and through passive-agressive behavior. They go on… — Michael Zielenziger Copy Share Image