The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Fashion as we used to know it doesn't exist. The dress as we know it today-it's dead. The dress has become so… — Rudi Gernreich Copy Share Image
I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“Emboldened by her teasing manner, Jonas squared his shoulders. From childhood had he loved Caroline. There would never be another woman for… — Lori Copeland Copy Share Image
The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
“all who have known God from the beginning, and have foretold the advent of Christ, have received the revelation from the Son… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
One Dad I know uses what I call Post-It® Note therapy on his children. He leaves sticky Post-It Notes everywhere ...in their… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“She knew nothing about children. After it was settled that Philip should come down to Blackstable, Mrs. Carey had thought much how… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We'll need to make a litter to carry him," said Osha. "No use," said Luwin. "I'm dying, woman." "You can't," said Rickon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'd had a racist experience as a child at age 10, where people had thrown rocks at me and bottles. I didn't… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“If a government is built on the principle of benevolence similar to that of a father towards his children, that is, a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Just as you can pick out the voice of a loved one in the tumult of a noisy room, or spot your… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] has offered me a position. Very early on. In fact, the election night or the wee hours of Wednesday, he… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
Grown adults often tell me that they used to sit, as children with their parents, and watch '3rd Rock from the Sun,'… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I… — Common Copy Share Image
Earlier, I would not train children under the age of six because they were so difficult to deal with, but now I… — Shobana Copy Share Image
“...childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I think the roots of this antagonism to science run very deep. They're ancient. We see them in Genesis, this first story,… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
I don't struggle to forgive people. I find it quite easy to forgive people for the harms that they have inflicted on… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“We talked just enough for me to know that I was basically in love, but not enough for me to know any… — Katie Heaney Copy Share Image
The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“As children, almost every summer my brother and I found at least one dusty Christmas ball in the corner of the living… — Penelope Przekop Copy Share Image
I want to thank my daughter for telling me just before I got up here, If you dont win dad, youre still… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
“Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“They are all such notions as never came into the heart of the wisest sophists in the world to conceive of; and… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Mind you, as a little boy, I always had other interests from most kids. I was not a boy who rubbed around… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
I have been keeping myself busy with events, live events, promotions, and of course, you have a child to raise and it… — Mahima Chaudhry Copy Share Image
For me, having kids was a complete gamechanger. Overnight, your entire world changes - it's incredible. The 'smaller things' you used to… — Frankie Bridge Copy Share Image
And the Lord said: I burn down your cities - how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
You could sit on top of a mountain praying for hours a day and still not make it if you had no… — Elizabeth Clare Prophet Copy Share Image
I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them,… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image