“Peeta and I grow back together. There are still moments when he clutches the back of a chair and hangs on until… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
As someone with missing fingers, it's made me so sad to see how this is portrayed as something to be scared of.… — Alex Brooker Copy Share Image
“When researchers looked at all the possible means of preventing infant and young child death they found that improving breastfeeding practices could… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
“Honorable, happy, and successful marriage is surely the principal goal of every normal person. Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
I want young children to savor and enjoy Tagore like I did since I was a child. He was too great a… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some people think that actresses tend not to be practical or domestic. That we're very flighty and emotionally vulnerable. Trust me, I'm… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Being alone is not the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“I wish that my childhood would have been different. I do not, however, regret what happened. This does not mean tht I… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“ My fantasy was that I was the long-lost switched-at-birth child of wealthy eccentrics. One day, they would find me and take… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
Kids will never go under the radar any more because there are so many scouts at grassroots level. Also, if you come… — Tyrone Mings Copy Share Image
Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
“Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself had become old. Even… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I had a very normal childhood because I think my parents made a decision very early in life to keep all of… — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
We want the children to conform; we want to control their minds, to shape their conduct, their way of living, so that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“I know this remarkable Nigerian woman, Angela, a single mother who was raising her child in the United States; her child did… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Losing Abby wasn't a story I remembered from early childhood--it was in my face, debilitating me like a sickness, robbing me of… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
A lonely world, a lonely girl, one lonely life where she tries to fit in. At school she feels like a fool… — Slowly_fading Copy Share Image
“She never hurried. Her brown hair took a lot of work to keep perfect. She wore a blouse and skirt, not expensive,… — Brian Freeman Copy Share Image
“One of the special delights of my childhood was to go and see the cases of illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict . . . There is nothing inevitable about it. It… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
I was an imaginative kid. My sister needed entertaining, whereas I was the one under the table playing with a bit of… — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which… — Jerome Isaac Friedman Copy Share Image
“Father-daughter incest is not only the type of incest most frequently reported but also represents a paradigm of female sexual victimization. The… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
When I met Akira Kurosawa in Japan, one question he asked me was, "How did you actually make the children act the… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image