Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The world has accepted hard-core fans' argument. Batman, this children's character who dresses up in a costume to effect the change he… — Glen Weldon Copy Share Image
One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
A lot of people worry much too much about what their children are reading... If a child picks up a book and… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In childhood period we always wanted to grow fast but now while we are big, we realize that broken pencils and incomplete… — Unkown Copy Share Image
“THE SENTIMENTALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD has produced a great many paradoxes. The most curious, however, may be that children have acquired more and… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“I knew there was something holding me here. It wasn't paprikash. Or nostalgia for my meager childhood... ...Somewhere in me a nearly… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when… — Hillel Neuer Copy Share Image
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing That is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks As it divides… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Franz Kafka is Dead He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“So many moments of potential holiday joy got buried in the pain of our abuse. Now these days offer us a chance… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's… — Lionel Messi Copy Share Image
Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention… — Denise Van Outen Copy Share Image
“To the end of her life, to the last dream of old age, Syeira would always remember these two wild smells-the Arva… — Jamieson Findlay Copy Share Image
“One of the (uncontemplated) pleasures of childhood and adolescence was how rigorously we exchanged comics and books with our buddies. As adults… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
“Time can do all sorts of things. It’s almost like a magician. It can turn autumn into spring and babies into children,… — Alex Shearer Copy Share Image
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
The biggest and most important part of our childhood was making movies. Our whole drive in life was to do this for… — Ross Duffer Copy Share Image
“A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“Children in the New Guinea highlands have the swollen bellies characteristic of a high-bulk but protein-deficient diet. New Guineans old and young… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
And besides . . . I don’t want to leave you. Er, you guys.” He smiled, and it lit up his whole… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“It is not Beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow… — George Darley Copy Share Image
O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For… — William Watson Copy Share Image
“The choices you have for your children are not the same as mine. For me, there is no such thing as a… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Where do I come from? We are the children of the Great Explosion of Love that begot the whole Universe. We bear… — Ivan Figueroa-Otero Copy Share Image
Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'. And shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF… — Elton John Copy Share Image
If you look at great reform, it always starts from parents. If you look at the movement to reform the special education… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
“There was such emotion in his eyes now, she felt as though her insides were pressing on her ribcage and twisting in… — Katharine Ashe Copy Share Image
I really do fervently believe that every child deserves to have the kind of access to educational opportunities, broadly defined, including music… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
