“A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not… — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
“Being hungry is the hardest thing, & to this day I have prayers of gratitude for the Black Panthers, who made Breakfast… — Patrisse Khan-Cullors Copy Share Image
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
“A mother who is afraid to admit that she resents her children may interfere so much in their lives, under the pretect… — Calvin Springer Hall Copy Share Image
One day shy of eight years old, my grandma passed away I was a broken hearted little boy, blowing out that birthday… — Steve Wariner Copy Share Image
The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“The historian Diodorus tells us the mother of the young victim took a prominent part in the ritual of immolation, standing by… — Solange Hertz Copy Share Image
When facing a child, I become a child. When facing an elderly person, or a husband, or a wife, in my heart,… — Masahisa Goi Copy Share Image
The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Tukum is at times forgetful about his pigs, being readily distracted by other children, dragonflies, puddles of water, and wild foods. Nevertheless,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned that if you make your primary goal teaching your child to read or spell just like every other child, you’re… — Ben Foss Copy Share Image
“Hope had finally learned to live in the present. Often, when she found herself in a space of tremendous comfort, usually out… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
“Lark’s Song That child who from Diana’s thought is born A huntress swift, who doth the world adorn With strength and passion… — D. Alexander Neill Copy Share Image
The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
“No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything." "You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children." "Stop… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on… — Sarah Louise Delany Copy Share Image
Kids need to know more than just about unicorns and zombies and vampires. The rhetoric that's coming out is anti-black, anti-Mexico, anti-diversity.… — Eric Walters Copy Share Image
I was a sickly child, and it wasn't until I was 19 that I realised I was quite a robust, vigorous person.… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children… — Henry George Copy Share Image