My schooling was very conservative. I went to Trinity School, and then to the Hill School, which is a boarding school, then… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think baseball is a great support to people who have emotional voids, gaps, emotional difficulties. That is to say: all of… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
If I am honored to serve as first lady, I will use that wonderful privilege to try to help people in our… — Melania Trump Copy Share Image
As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you're in, when you want something - no… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of evolution thus takes the place of the old religion in the modern man.320It is no science; it does not… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As cities get bigger, our best defence will be to prevent outbreaks in the first place by building better public health systems,… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced to it… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“As with most voluntary school integration programs, dispersal of the black children was the norm. In Portland, no more than forty-five black… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“When the child does or says something that the parents don't like, they immediately become rejecting and critical of the child. Since… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at… — Sandra Lee Copy Share Image
“But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're the daughters of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Marrying and begetting a child is considered to liquidate one’s debts to the family in which one is born. There are many… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well,… — Josette Sheeran Copy Share Image
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted.… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“The conversation is too mind-numbing, so I devote my attention to fiddling with the fancy backseat temperature controls instead. There’s only so… — Jessica Martinez Copy Share Image
“Only now, when it is too late, do I long for Dearth. I was a misbegotten child of bad blood and bile,… — Jane Avrich Copy Share Image
You can't have an honest fourth grade school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Johnny, your son, your only child, the fruit of… — Dom Irrera Copy Share Image
But whatever the era, whatever the times, one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
When I went to medical school, I was taught about two basic kinds of diabetes: juvenile onset and adult onset. From the… — David Katz Copy Share Image
What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
