“Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“She knew that by the morning she would be suffering from arse-ache. She smiled, remembering how, as a child, this was what… — Graham Higson Copy Share Image
“But that's life. We wander around like blind mice searching for whatever it is we're looking for. From mice to miserable men,… — Gregory Hughes Copy Share Image
“Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final wailing cries. More than… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good… — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
“A constantly criticized child can loose as much confidence and self-esteem as one who remembers being humiliated on one particular, horrifying day.… — Brian L. Weiss Copy Share Image
I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
“Then there are families for whom education was not the focus at all. Instead children were expected to go into the family… — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
“In a study in 1995, Betty Hart and Todd Risley of the University of Kansas found that children in professional families heard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our young people think about nothing more than love affairs and pleasure. They spend more time attempting to seduce and dishonor young… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It started off with a one night stand, lingered to a fling. The sirens and the sergeants didn't seem to mean a… — Jasmine Laura Copy Share Image
“What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm the blackest member of my family. You know, these mixed families produce children of all colors, and in Jamaica, the question… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
“Siesta becomes a ritual. We pull in the shutters, leaving the windows open. All over the house, ladders of light fall across… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and… — Lillian H. Smith Copy Share Image
Vaccines [measles] have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don't take vaccines is children get measles and die.… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
I really try to focus on organizations, twofold, one that help people and/or beings that don't have other means of help. Particularly… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. ... We are all children of a… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“ Leisure time Children in Italy enjoy similar pastimes to young people from elsewhere in Europe. There are many television channels to… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home.… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
I felt I had a very innocent childhood and I feel privileged by that. But as an adult, I know that there… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love’s embraces met –Adam, the goodliest man of men… — Randi Cooley Wilson Copy Share Image