I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
People often ask authors where their ideas come from, and often authors say they don't know. But I do know about this… — Sam McBratney Copy Share Image
“Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children… — Assia Djebar Copy Share Image
And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
When I'm at home, I don't discuss business. I don't talk business. I don't answer the phone. It's just me, my wife,… — DMX Copy Share Image
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To encourage children into Rock Music is to place them into the white hot arms of Molech and the beat and power… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
I don't think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“As time passed from solstice to mild solstice in those occluded zones of my early childhood, I played beneath the distracted majesty… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
It's risky because any number of things are going to happen that nobody can foresee. But right now everybody is the left… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Do you think they were ever happy?" "Definitely," I said. "Definitely?" "For sure." "She went crazy. His business failed. They couldn't have… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents,… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“i do not expect my child’s respect. just because i have given birth to their life. does not mean they owe me.… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child… — John Kline Copy Share Image
Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
There's a view in Russian society that there are 'male professions' and 'female professions.' The women should be looking after the home… — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
“She hears the words childhood leukemia, or maybe he says lymphoma, and what's the difference anyway?…She is furious with herself for her… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
“I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol has just… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“children who experience multiple transitions in family structure may fare worse developmentally than children raised in stable two-parent families and perhaps even… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“When a child's needs are not met (because they conflict with those of its caretakers), the child's boundaries become defined by the… — Joel Friedman Copy Share Image
Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Michael and I both know that had we tried to have a child and get married in the previous time we were… — Nicole Johnson Copy Share Image
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I'd set up, no matter how many children I have got to… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
