I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“My child is doing great—so says the school—but it’s only because we do so much outside tutoring and give him so much… — Greer Gurland Copy Share Image
Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
I fell in love with improv but like the good, repressed, immigrant child I am, I bottled that energy up and used… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die,… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children… — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
Im a poet writing of my pain im a person living a life of shame I'm a daughter hiding my depression im… — 13 Yearold Copy Share Image
“To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Every man, every woman, every child has some talent, some power, some opportunity of getting good and doing good. Each day offers… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something about being able to look at this family on the film where a woman drops out of the sky,… — Nicholas Hammond Copy Share Image
I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Phoebe burst into tears. For several minutes she stood weeping in the middle of the road, the choking, gulping sobs of childhood.… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Never miss an opportunity to allow a child to do something she can and wants to on her own. Sometimes we're in… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
My daughter's just going to be really hip! My goal is to be as eco-conscious as possible: There's so much out there… — Ana Ortiz Copy Share Image
Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Kinect is such a great new entry into the field because it takes away one of the big barriers to little kids… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
It's really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subjects: they are not socialized into the idea… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“I steeled myself for this interaction. Fact: I knew I could talk to people. Fact: Children were little people. Little, scary people.… — Conor Grennan Copy Share Image
“she had this look of calmness, of concentration, the look, I think, of all women who for the first time are with… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
You make love for the pleasure and the passion and for the love that two people have for each other. But then… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“What a child she can be sometimes,' he thought, smiling again at her uninhibited display of enthusiasm as he poured himself a… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
When my daughters were young and would try to tell me they were struggling emotionally, that they were feeling down or anxious,… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
“At family worship let the children take a part. Let all bring their Bibles and each read a verse or two. Then… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“Furlough?” He said. “What?” said the first hood irritably. Despereaux shuddered. His own brother was delivering him to the dungeon. His heart… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The thought of a man being the murderer of his own daughter in the Twin Peaks was anathema to me. At the… — Ray Wise Copy Share Image
If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying… — Josette Sheeran Copy Share Image
“You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that.… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
And my daughter said, 'Why are you yelling at us?' and I said, 'I'm trying to discipline you!' And then she looked… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image