“Kale, jackass. His name is Kale," I snapped. Someone had joined the line behind Dad. The woman made an irritated noise of… — Jus Accardo Copy Share Image
Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
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One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“They are like the handful of belongings saved from a burnt-down house. There should be a continuous challenge to authority for change… — Hwang Sŏk-yŏng Copy Share Image
Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Due to the closure of many deaf schools in the U.K., deaf children are forced to attend mainstream school. I don't mind… — Rachel Shenton Copy Share Image
“But Hadley understood. It wasn't that she was meant to read them all. Maybe someday she would, but for now, it was… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
I think a lot of women feel so obligated right now to do so many different things that they don't really stop… — Jo Harvey Allen Copy Share Image
“I wanted love to grow back, like the grass when it’s mown down. To grow differently, if need be, like children’s teeth,… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
That undeniable love for your child... that's something I totally get. And the bumps in the road, too. Like, any parent that… — Betsy Brandt Copy Share Image
There are several natural phenomena which I shall have to have explained to me before I can keep on going as a… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art.… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Never shall I forget the exquisite sensation I experienced! I can only describe it as the poor little Doll’s Dressmaker in “Our… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
The thing is, the kids always rebel against what the parents try to push on them so I'm going to pretend like… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Personally, I would counsel any woman who asked, in my family, to do her best to carry the child full term, and… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
There are women who live in U.S. with maybe one abortion clinic. The right wing is trying to make it impossible for… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
My daughter was 10 years old when she told me she hated computers. As someone who has spent her career helping build… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Finally, the last point that can kill your spark is Isolation. As you grow older you will realize you are unique. When… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray.… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it.… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their… — H. David Burton Copy Share Image
I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I tried to interest my daughter in dancing, but she didn't take to it. As a five-year-old, she got lost on the… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
Most people believe a new idea must be fully baked and ready-for-primetime. That is like saying a newborn child should have a… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria.… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Dear Charity, Is anything worth fighting for? Doubtful Dear Doubtful, Yes, many things: children, friendship, the future. Sour cream fudge rum cake… — Karen Kijewski Copy Share Image
The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain,… — Rebecca Walker Copy Share Image