“A child's parents should be able to forbid their son or daughter from reading a book of mine or anyone else's. However,… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services,… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
“I didn't like what that word-'childhood'-conjured up, or rather, I didn't like the way most people use it: that presumption of innocence… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
“She remembers her name. She remembers the name of the president. She remembers the name of the president’s dog. She remembers what… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your… — James Frey Copy Share Image
With the birth of the babe in Bethlehem, there emerged a great endowment—a power stronger than weapons, a wealth more lasting than… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
“I knew how to raise my own child, what did he think it was, a game of Scrabble or Monopoly, there are… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
“Young children are developing more of an artistic orientation, and the orientation they develop is so naturally graceful and lively that many… — William Crain Copy Share Image
“It had taken Nick most of his life and mine, but he’d finally quit drinking. After he got sober he began to… — Andrea Jarrell Copy Share Image
If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We have to start doing a better job of being role models for our children. They are the future and we aren't… — Bob Backlund Copy Share Image
Why me? Why did this happen? How could I be in Westlife and then have nothing to show for it financially at… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Each soul has it's own path. Children are young personalities but they are not always young souls. Incarnation into the domain of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I jokingly say that the enemies are children, you know. I always say, if you have young kids, your whole goal from… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that every night of the week, my husband, ex-husband, our children and I all sit around together like one… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things,… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From… — Rajiv Shah Copy Share Image
“Once born into child like faith, brimming with belief, typical people began to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
“The question that remains unanswered and keeps coming to the fore is ‘Are the punishment schemes for child sex and sexual abuse… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
My sons! *sigh* My sons, If you are to become true ninja you must work harder. Your path in life will not… — Master Splinter Copy Share Image
“All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“However, experience has taught us that action in the now is also necessary, always. Our children cannot dream unless they live, they… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Why are you still here? And why won’t you give me back my key, dammit?” “Because your daughter asked me to check… — Meghan March Copy Share Image
Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“If one were to list all the cruelties and maltreatments, both physical and emotional, that parents and adults inflict on children under… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
“Emotions are a form of energy in motion. They signal us of a loss, a threat or a satiation. Sadness is about… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
On this day I remember words that have stayed with me since my childhood and which matter a great deal to me… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
