“Do you guys have sunscreen?” I ask. “No,” Scottie says. “Do we have water?” “Did you bring any?” Alex asks. “No,” I… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
It is well known that measles is an important development milestone in the life and maturing processes in children. Why would anybody… — Viera Scheibner Copy Share Image
My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“He didn't mean I couldn't leave, he meant I couldn't leave leave. If he meant I couldn't even take out the trash… — Dinah Katt Copy Share Image
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
“Thank you," Emerson said, bowing his head and accepting the box with the tender hands of a parent holding a child. "I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Ford is leaving. You see that, their small car division leaving. Thousands of jobs leaving Michigan, leaving Ohio. They're all leaving. And… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In the area we live, there's a large show of children who run from one house to another house to another house.… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
There's something really special about childhood. When you're a kid, you're at your most creative, and you're very plugged into your imagination… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the… — Adele Faber Copy Share Image
Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do—the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly… — Tiffany Dufu Copy Share Image
I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in is the protection of children from violence, and they are exposed to violence every single day in the… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
The chances of a child coming through as I did... the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always… — Shelley Fabares Copy Share Image
24,000 people, 18,000 of them children, die every day because of hunger. Each year we bring food to nearly 90 million people… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
I grew up listening and looking up at these people and laughing at Carol Burnett and singing James Taylor songs. And same… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
It's not easy with tennis, because if you want to see your daughter a lot, then your wife has to sacrifice a… — Daniil Medvedev Copy Share Image
The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I feel that in all kids that I've came across, that at the age of 12-13 is a big transition . They… — Richard Cabral Copy Share Image
I'm trying to teach my children not to cry. That's the big thing. No crying. Because I think we can all agree… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
“When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like "to feel comfortable in their own… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents… — Mari Boine Copy Share Image
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
“Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings,… — David Almond Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If he [the Talib] comes, what would you do Malalala? If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there will be… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I can't stand the comfort zone. So many people I know, their parents give them their homes, and they get married and… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image