Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Why not coincidentally? From religion comes hope for the future and a sense of societal obligation (i.e., a non-hedonistic worldview). No faith,… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
“—What do the children say? —There's a thing the children say. —What do the children say? —They say: Will you always love… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Every evening my wife makes us martinis and we talk about our days as I cook dinner and our children ignore us.… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
I don't think that within a certain amount of time we can get rid of all nuclear weapons. But I do believe… — Sam Nunn Copy Share Image
“How did I become who I am? I have a heart easily hurt. I believed that cruelty was most often caused by… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“...for Hobie, who sorrowed over these elegant old remnants as if they were underfed children or mistreated cats, it was a point… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The sun danced through the small leaves of the oak, turning them saffron and dappling the blankets with the ghosts of baby… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wish my childhood had been less obsessed with the question of why we are here. But that must be the… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
One day, my daughter Tybee came to me, and she said, ‘I have so much love for you in my body, Daddy,… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“His brows flew up. “Oh. Was it …” “Some people, when they lose a child, they never really recover. Your father couldn’t… — Kate McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship,"… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I took her hand in mine, not the way I used to hold hers as a child, but with our fingers woven… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“That's something for me to consider. So what else can you tempt me with?" Breckenridge hid a wry smile; he'd guessed that,… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
“Everyone who dies was once a child; every child once had a dream of something else; every child must die. It is… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present,… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
A lot of African Americans, especially men, deal with this as a part of life. I've been pulled over by the police… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Drawing from 1.7 million Gallup surveys collected between 2008 and 2012, researchers Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found that parents with children… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
“It’s no surprise we fail to tune into our children’s essence. How can we listen to them, when so many of us… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
“Who can know when his world is going to change? . . . Who would suspect that in the morning a different… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
When I talk about it, now people imagine I had an impoverished childhood, especially when I tell people we used to have… — Troy Deeney Copy Share Image
“When you call my name,” Souad yells, and the children erupt in laughter, even Manar. And her heart, her heart, rising with… — Hala Alyan Copy Share Image
Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let… — Brian X. Foley Copy Share Image
“But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage… — Sue Richardson Copy Share Image
I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
“The World has a First Cause, which may be regarded as the Mother of the World. When one has found the Mother,… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
![“How did I become who I am? I have a heart easily hurt. I believed that cruelty was most often caused by ignorance. I thought that if everybody knew, everything would be different. I was a silly child who believed in the revolution. [...] I can't be bought or intimidated because I'm already cut…” quote by Andrea Dworkin](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/fcc/andrea-dworkin-1998_children_how-did-i-become-who-i-am-i-have-a-heart_1408049.png)
![“[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get…” quote by George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ad4/george-macdonald-295_can-not_god-desires-not-that-he-may-say-to-them_2732298.png)
