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I became very close with a lot of the guys at Top Gun and to the instructors... the way they talked about… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
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Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. ... He's a good-looking man. He… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“In the past, when dogs’ functions were mostly rural, it was accepted that they were intrinsically messy and needed to be managed… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
It is difficult to explain to children in the "overdeveloped" nations that not all children in the world have such beautiful and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I feel I should do everything I can to make a difference in Haiti. My main goal to help the people of… — Noah Munck Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing that I learned, I learned from my kids. They were eight and ten - and they were playing… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
We've gotten caught up in thinking we are what we look like, the physical, the exterior. We think we're the lamp shade.… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Don't separate your life, the life that you're going to make with… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
There is no better training for chess than swimming. On a Friday evening I like to put in a good long session… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
“Walking through the halls of my son's high school during lunch hour recently, I was struck by how similar it felt to… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as… — Alex Trebek Copy Share Image
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Usually all lullabies are featured on a mother and child. But in 'Kalimannu,' it is picturised on a mother-to-be who is singing… — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
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Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Electricity was a reality in the universe when Moses led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. This is… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I think it shapes it in very deep ways that you don't entirely understand. Rainer Maria Rilke said there are two inexhaustible… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The question haunts me still, and will, I suppose, until I join my parents in our final reunion. If the doctor had… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever… pneumonia… Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
Organic is something we can all partake of and benefit from. When we demand organic, we are demanding poison-free food. We are… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
“Know Your Worth My child, you are favoured In Jesus’ precious Name Your blessings are abundant So, embrace your essence Wherever you… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“The capacity of sex offenders for denial, rationalization, and minimization of their deviant behavior is confirmed by Salter's (1995) finding that the… — Harvey L. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
As a child, Kate hat once asked her mother how she would know she was in love. Her mother had said she… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
“As a child, my wife hated her school and wished she could leave. Years later, when she was in her twenties, she… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
“One and a half million Jewish men and women and children: How was anyone to understand a number like that? Andras knew… — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image