“We work with both parents and their children to make lasting progress. Supporting the entire family to succeed is critically important, because… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me… — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“If there is one educational policy I would like to see adopted throughout the United Kingdom, it would be a policy that… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it.… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“Sometimes now when you crawl into my lap and settle against me and I feel that light, quick strength of your body… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Once a child enters adolescence, it may become increasingly difficult to raise these issues. Because adolescence is a time of rebellion—of self-definition,… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“The imported discovery, that human nature is too good to be made better by discipline, that children are enticed from the right… — Lyman Beecher Copy Share Image
“And that great mixture was brought to America in the holds of slave ships. To the north, the south. Their sons and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
My daughter has a couple of those small calculators, but she never uses them. I think they're fine if you need to… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
“More than a third of deaths in children under five happen during the first month of life (about four million babies). Breastfeeding… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
It is the way a father holds his child's hand that makes his child feel safe. It is the way a father… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The young child asked, “Which one will win the fight?” And the grandfather replied, “Whichever one you feed.” If we replay and… — Kathy Obear Copy Share Image
We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and… — John Vasconcellos Copy Share Image
“Teachers were not allowed to beat children as they did in the past, although, Mma Ramotswe reflected, there were some boys-and indeed… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...As a child he had gone out for Halloween as a mummy, a vampire, a blue-and-green-swolen drowned boy, all kinds of sufferings… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
A very important part of writing for children is appearing at book festivals, and in libraries and schools. An important part of… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
“You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Always take the time to show compassion for those less fortunate, and there are many. Take the time to help a young… — Jack Lambert Copy Share Image
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Like so many doctors,” Rieff recalls, “he spoke to us as if we were children but without the care that a sensible… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“TEENAGERS from the Institute of Children's Literature. After she graduated college, Lacy got serious about her writing career and joined the American… — Lacy Yager Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in… — David Wolpe Copy Share Image
“I tell my young patients, and my own children, that this is not their life. Not yet. What they are doing now… — Wendy Walker Copy Share Image
Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose.… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“My mom’s a doctor, but because she came from India and then Africa, where childhood obesity was not a problem, she put… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,’’ Pfeiffer said Obama has no choice but to act on his own because of Congress’s ‘‘failure to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image