“It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone you loved… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not… — Bobby Flay Copy Share Image
“Teach her to stand up for what is hers. If another child takes her toy without her permission, ask her to take… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Children are accustomed to a continual stream of criticisms and praise, but adults can go weeks without a compliment while enduring criticism… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Marley was born in 2014 and I gave her her biological father's name. After two months, we became estranged and I raised… — Eva Marcille Copy Share Image
“To delight a child, to add a new joy to the crowded miracles of childhood, is no less worth doing than to… — Gleeson White Copy Share Image
A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
It's a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There's this thing of, like, 'This is a model of womanhood for you,' but… — Susan Kelechi Watson Copy Share Image
“I was baptized one foggy afternoon about four o'clock. I couldn't think of any names I particularly wanted, so I kept my… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children… — William Labov Copy Share Image
The mindset in India is to get an education that will secure a job, and then think about how to get a… — Ravichandran Ashwin Copy Share Image
In England, 'The Muppet Show' is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
“When I asked him what he was planning to do in Canada, he didn’t have an answer. “I don’t care about myself… — Maziar Bahari Copy Share Image
In many poor countries, if the daughter is told who she's going to marry, and told that she's going to live in… — Pietra Rivoli Copy Share Image
I'd have to think of something really creative and mind-fucking. Maybe if I adopted a child, like a foreign child, and carried… — Leven Rambin Copy Share Image
Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child;… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
“Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think… — salman rushdie Copy Share Image
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“The Father protects his children, the septons taught, but Davos had led his boys into the fire. Dale would never give his… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
“Assuming mother's absence is only for a short time, don't be too concerned if you find yourself being more relaxed than she… — Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia Copy Share Image
“This, you see, is the true danger of children: they are ambushes, each and every one of them. A person may look… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle,… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was the first and deepest thing, and… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“ten or twelve men, especially between brothers and between fathers and sons; but the offspring of these unions are counted as the… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“Slowly the golden memory of the dead sun fades from the hearts of the cold, sad clouds. Silent, like sorrowing children, the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors, never menaces or frightens children,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned… — John Gibbon Copy Share Image
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
“According to Plato, Socrates said: "I have, since my childhood, been attended by a semi-divine being whose voice from time to time… — José Silva Copy Share Image
