All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Hence [through No Child Left Behind] the state has been given power...to fire all teachers and principles. So here we have an… — James M. Lang Copy Share Image
Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I told her one of the few stories that she'd told me of myself as a child. We'd gone to a park… — Jessica Soffer Copy Share Image
Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
I support DACA, which prevents the deportation of undocumented immigrants who came to America as children. Congress should cement this program into… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
“the sage Lenny Millstein, who not only was an excellent basketball man but an excellent person as well, who knew how to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
“I still dream in pictures and color, always the world of my childhood. I see the purple Judas trees at Easter lighting… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
Women are looking out for other women and their children. There are some great nannies, and there are some horrible nannies. And… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
“Luke and I used to walk together, sometimes, along these streets. We used to talk about buying a house like one of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Attaching the word marriage to the association of same-sex individuals mistakenly presumes that marriage is principally a matter of adult benefits and… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, and Roger said… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“If I had been born in the 1700′s, presumably children had a bigger vocabulary than I had which means I wouldn’t have… — John Branyan Copy Share Image
“Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
Early childhood offerings vary, but everywhere in Europe and in Canada, they're far more generous than in the United States. Ukrainian dads… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“He was not being courageous as he bore the freezing stream for his wife and children. He simply chose between the lesser… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I asked him if he had bothered to have children. He said yes, he had children. I said why if this is… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in… — Denene Millner Copy Share Image
To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders… — Mark Sanchez Copy Share Image
“When love is unreliable and you are a child, you assume that it is the nature of love -- its quality --… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“The Bible teaches about the hand of the heavenly Father not only that it provides but also that it punishes. And his… — David Pawson Copy Share Image
As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence,… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
“But that can never be," said Milo, jumping to his feet. "Don't be too sure," said the child patiently, "for one of… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature,… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“They lived happily ever after. It said so. In the book. They were the last words on the page. Happily ever after.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
My daughter is 8 years old, and just recently she came to me and said a girl called her fat. And I… — Denise Bidot Copy Share Image
Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears… — John W Holt Jr Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“If you walk a city, if you love a city, if you put in your miles and years with open heart and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“Fix the Family, a conservative, Catholic “family values” organization, published a list of reasons why families should not send their daughters to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image