Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced to it… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“When the child does or says something that the parents don't like, they immediately become rejecting and critical of the child. Since… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As with most voluntary school integration programs, dispersal of the black children was the norm. In Portland, no more than forty-five black… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at… — Sandra Lee Copy Share Image
“But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're the daughters of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Making a film is like raising a child. You cannot raise a child to be liked by everyone. You raise a child… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you're in, when you want something - no… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of evolution thus takes the place of the old religion in the modern man.320It is no science; it does not… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As cities get bigger, our best defence will be to prevent outbreaks in the first place by building better public health systems,… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who… — Silvan Shalom Copy Share Image
I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
When you're a child, you watch Brazil on TV and feel that desire to be a national team player, so when you… — Fernandinho Copy Share Image
“When children had drawn a letter freehand, they exhibited increased activity in three areas of the brain that are activated in adults… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Where do starfish come from?” asked Sam. “From the sky,” answered Stella. “Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the… — Marie-Louise Gay Copy Share Image
Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie.… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
No one can ever prepare a parent for two things: the immeasurable love that comes with having a child; and the sorrow… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
“Let this curse find those who have stolen from us like the wolf finds his prey. May death come to you on… — Josh Graham Copy Share Image
“dying, you don't get to see how it all turns out. Questions you have asked will go unanswered forever. Will this one… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover our sins,… — Joseph Smith Copy Share Image
Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
“From the French perspective, this was not attachment parenting. This was indulgent parenting. Traditionally, the French believe that children who have not… — Karen Le Billon Copy Share Image
“Did he know about the doping?’ Children at sports schools were given hormones under the guise of vitamins. In a scandal that… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
