“In Finland, children do not start formal instruction until grade 1 when they are 7. Pre-school and kindergarten are part of their… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“The ride back to Kathmandu was comfortable and relaxing. There were more overturned trucks (the gas-powered ones seem to tip the most… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
“I call the violent kind of "upbringing" abuse, not only because children are thus refused the right to dignity and respect as… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“Here: an exercise in choice. Your choice. One of these tales is true. She lived through the war. In 1959 she came… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“It is a Law of Nature with us that a male child shall have one more side than his father, so that… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since… — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Think about it. We are fed in the Eucharist, by our mothers when we are infants, by our parents as children, by… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Kronborg was a strange woman. That word "talent", which no one else in Moonstone, not even Dr. Archie, would have understood,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On 'Masterchef' I'm always a big fan of the puddings. But I have to confess, as a child I absolutely loved butterscotch… — Gregg Wallace Copy Share Image
If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
“You were never as much to blame as you thought,” she told him softly. A brief smile touched his lips. “That’s what… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
“Will there be enough to go around, or must we compete for our kills?" "Unfortunately, I suspect there will be plenty, but… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“Fathers who consider themselves as the best father of their children are often the worst father in the eyes of their children.… — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Childhood is, or has been, or ought to be, the great original adventure, a tale of privation, courage, constant vigilance, danger, and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Either way, one should love their children, shouldn’t they? After all, children are only duplicates of your own genes. What did these… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse.… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“Thou talk'st of nothing." "True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As a parent, the most responsible thing I can do is get as much information about my children as possible so I… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
“When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, and… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I traveled so much as a child. When I was four, we moved to the Oman in the Middle East. We lived… — Tate McRae Copy Share Image
Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“I was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But… — Majel Barrett Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
