“She told me that Melisande had borne a daughter, and that one day . . . one day she would like for… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a… — Plato Copy Share Image
My kids are my No. 1 priority. Theyre the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles.… — Thalia Copy Share Image
Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the… — Edward M Hays Copy Share Image
“a happy child grows up to be a happy adult. When I was growing up, spoiling a child meant ruining a child.… — Jamie Eubanks Copy Share Image
It's OK to stand back. But it's also good to demonstrate that it's fun to be involved. As long as you are… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a… — Grace Abbott Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
When people talk about wanting to have children someday, what they really mean is that they want babies. Nobody wants an angry… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
“But that's life. We wander around like blind mice searching for whatever it is we're looking for. From mice to miserable men,… — Gregory Hughes Copy Share Image
“She knew that by the morning she would be suffering from arse-ache. She smiled, remembering how, as a child, this was what… — Graham Higson Copy Share Image
“Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final wailing cries. More than… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with… — Bernard Hill Copy Share Image
The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
“Are you afraid of dying?" "I was at first, maybe I still am a little bit. But it's not death that scares… — Deanna Lynn Sletten Copy Share Image
In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
We seek to sow life in the child rather than theories, to help him in his growth, mental and emotional as well… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
You know what I can't stand? These little girls that get pregnant and don't grow up, they think they can just carry… — Cheyenne Copy Share Image
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“In a study in 1995, Betty Hart and Todd Risley of the University of Kansas found that children in professional families heard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
“Our young people think about nothing more than love affairs and pleasure. They spend more time attempting to seduce and dishonor young… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“A constantly criticized child can loose as much confidence and self-esteem as one who remembers being humiliated on one particular, horrifying day.… — Brian L. Weiss Copy Share Image
I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good… — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
“Then there are families for whom education was not the focus at all. Instead children were expected to go into the family… — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
