I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
“I get so sick of people asking me, “Do you work?” Of course I work! I’ve got five children under ten—I work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What are we doing when we brainwash children in schools to cut open their fellow animals? Are we dangerously desensitizing them? Some… — Richard D. Ryder Copy Share Image
I don't have a need for marriage. You want to grow old with someone, you want to have a partner and to… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth… — Unknown Christian Copy Share Image
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
“My attention was like cooking butter, not spreadable at the best of times. And when it was spreadable, it could destroy your… — Shoeburn Ruffet Copy Share Image
But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative… — Libby Houston Copy Share Image
For all adults who haven't had a very rosy childhood, the first thing they will tell you is that they want to… — Samantha Akkineni Copy Share Image
“The child entered the hut. The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to himself: - "I… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Heavenly Father has assigned us to a great variety of stations to strengthen and, when needed, to lead travelers to safety. Our… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“…brotherhood of the firstborn, which can be both a blessing and a curse: the overwhelming attention to the detail of their lives… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage,… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Most of my good friends are my friends from high school or childhood, and they're not actors - they have 9-to-5 jobs.… — Emily Meade Copy Share Image
“You'll marry me, my dragon, and you'll bear my children, and you'll drive me mad and live in that ramshackle old house… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
It is a great problem for the true international agenda of human rights that the United States, uniquely among industrialised countries, has… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Two children, all alone and no one by, Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet… — Laurence Binyon Copy Share Image
There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic;… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“The children are all crying in their pens and the surf carries their cries away. They are old men who have seen… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“The note of almost unbearable irritation sounding through the deliberately calm tone in which he has just spoken penetrates her child's heart… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Dear Mothers Everywhere! First and foremost - enjoy your children! Rediscover the world with them, as they revel in the mundane and… — Connie Kerbs Copy Share Image
When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image