In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
“The problem is that children believe what adults say and once they're adults themselves they exact their revenge by deceiving their own… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Lamar, why do they go into a trance when I change into this?” I ask as I go phantom and change into… — Kristy Cunning Copy Share Image
To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your familyyou have to know what you're capable of handling… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
In my research, I found that since 1979, women have lost the equivalent to one night's sleep due to the pressures of… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
“One by one, she conjured all the boxes she'd been put into: The good girl box and the good Christian box...the mistress… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans...hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow… — Swoosie Kurtz Copy Share Image
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if… — Phil Esposito Copy Share Image
“Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word... SACRIFICE.… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Somewhere in my early twenties I realized I was pretty constantly monitoring myself, judging how I was always falling short, whether it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
“Those institutions—the so-called “industrial schools,” orphanages and “Magdalene” laundries—were run by certain religious orders in Ireland for the better part of a… — Christina McKenna Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid there was a TV interstitial during Saturday morning cartoons with a song that went like this: "The… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of… — Dave Lindorff Copy Share Image
“Until my mother's abduction, the children of Luce County weren't kept under lock and key. Possibly not even after, because old habits… — Karen Dionne Copy Share Image
Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
I was merely a child when I opened a book 9a scroll to be more specific). What I read within those lines… — Daegus (43rd King Of Atlantis Copy Share Image
“She hoped her words rang true about her lost daughter Sarai as well, whom she hadn’t seen in over eighteen years, though… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
“They are funny little representatives of simplicity, of awareness. No one is more aware of themselves as these children are. They have… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
“They were a motley assembly, each with some cause for anxiety stirring at his heart; though, after all, that is saying little… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put… — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own,… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example,… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“You need not treat me like a child, sir. I am perfectly capable of navigating this staircase on my own." He snorted.… — Karen Witemeyer Copy Share Image
“My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
“No matter who you are or what kind of baggage you carry with you, no matter what you look like or feel… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to… — Michael Parkinson Copy Share Image
I deplore the horrible crime as child murder…no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image