I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Dear little Bog-Face, Why are you so cold? And why do you lie with your eyes shut?-- You are not very old.… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I'm a snowflake. And so are you. Your children are snowflakes. And so are mine. And those who protest the loudest about… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
“What is the purpose of my writing about the various experiences of my life? It is not for publicity, but with the… — Ernest Albert Law Copy Share Image
Yeah, anytime anybody has a kid, you know how you feel when you have a kid, you look at the world differently… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
“When people are to be slaughtered en masse, the local population is not immediately gripped by a bloodthirsty hatred of the old… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after… — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
“A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
The panelists on To Tell The Truth, which is the one that I really knew, they cared about getting it right. They… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
“Hunter, I have no brothers. You are my brother. My wife is dead. My child is dead. My parents are dead. Must… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing… — Phil Robinson Copy Share Image
The nomadic lifestyle does work for a lot of working parents, but I've traveled and I've seen it, and I want to… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
An adolescent does not rebel against his parents. He rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
We are resolved to protect individual freedom of belief. This freedom must include the child as well as the parent. The freedom… — Sophia Lyon Fahs Copy Share Image
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having,… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
I want to inspire other young kids, no matter what their background is or where they're from or anything like that, that… — Adam Rippon Copy Share Image
“The best response comes from action, not from intellect. For example, we may hear this question: “If love rules the world, why… — David Richo Copy Share Image
To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We're even going to have sex in Heaven! How about that? Isn't that wonderful? Love all the girls you want to and… — David Berg Copy Share Image
“You’re not your daughter’s playmate,” she said, and I nearly burst out in tears, because I needed to hear that so badly.… — Leah Remini Copy Share Image
She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything––nothing else… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Leah watches Natalie stride over to her beautiful kitchen with her beautiful child. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
“They had started speaking of "women and children" - that phrase that exempts the male from sanity when it has been repeated… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
It's difficult to parent one kid, let alone five! It's insane. It's this strange, overwhelming mess that I would not trade for… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“wish I could just run barefoot in every refugee camp and hold every child, cover their ears so they wouldn’t have to… — Rafeef Ziadah Copy Share Image
“The point of making children sleep alone, according to Western psychologists, is to make them “self-soothing,” but that clearly runs contrary to… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody's parent will come up to me… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Susan Lucci was the biggest star in the daytime galaxy, and she served it up hot and fresh and chic five days… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
