“She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts,… — Harriet Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Heather: What about my husband and the children? Caleb: Do you have a husband? Heather: No Caleb: Single mother? Heather: No Caleb:… — Cherry Adair Copy Share Image
No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Beginning with the first day of life outside the womb, every child is asking two core questions: 'Am I loved?' and 'Can… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and… — William Smith Copy Share Image
“Are wild strawberries really wild? Will they scratch an adult, will they snap at a child? Should you pet them, or let… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
With a growth mindset, kids don't necessarily think that there's no such thing as talent or that everyone is the same, but… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes." "The whole of the realm denies it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My husband says this longing for isolation is not a good quality, that if I wanted to be a hermit I should… — Anna White Copy Share Image
Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
If confirmed, Judge [Samuel] Alito could serve on the court for generation or more. And the decisions he will make as justice… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
We ask how did ISIS members become radicalized? How did the shooters in El Paso or Orlando or Las Vegas become radicalized?… — Brian Stelter Copy Share Image
“He does not care for me. He brought me to the village to feed his child." "He gave you Red Star." Jesse… — Stephanie Grace Whitson Copy Share Image
“Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know That things depart which never may return: Childhood and youth, friendship and love's first… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I think one thing my mother always instilled in me was a sense of individuality. Being an only child, I never thought… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were glittering like the eyes of a child when you give a nice surprise, and she laughed with a sudden… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“There aren't many kids today as good as you are. Kids today are selfish; they don't think of others. They're too busy… — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
I urge President Trump to maintain American participation in the Paris Agreement - for the sake of our international leadership, economic competitiveness,… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve… — Jose Serrano Copy Share Image
“Parental efforts to gain leverage generally take two forms: bribery or coercion. If a simple direction such as “I'd like you to… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I think that there's a particular type of person who goes into children's theater, and then goes into theater in high school.… — Craig Brewer Copy Share Image
“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work?… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
“Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly . All he thinks he has a right to when… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“of the growth of self-restraint. A starting point for Elias’s analysis was medieval treatises on polite manners such as the book On… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have.… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We are the millions and millions of Americans who take responsibility for our own safety and protection of our children as a… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image