It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't… — Benjamin Watson Copy Share Image
My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's an ethical pact I've made with myself and with the reader - not to invent. And when I can't remember, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
In every life, there have to be some shadows. Look at me. My life has been filled with sunshine. A beautiful and… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
“Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Thanks," she says - and suddenly tears well and fall. Augustus understands: not because she's suffered but because he's helping her. When… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and… — Jeffrey Bryant Copy Share Image
“It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Love the family! Defend and promote it as the basic cell of human society; nurture it as the prime sanctuary of life.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I have a cousin, a second cousin, who lives in L.A., and she was with me while I was getting ready. She… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
“Again and again we trade infinite wonder for a handful of statue; we barter the limitless Nothing for the short-term bird in… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“You are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“What still frightens me is that society is fickle. There was a time when nobody believed in the reality of abuse, and… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
“Love is two smiles shared between two people. Or two smiles and a smirk, shared between one couple and a jerk. Or… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t it take your breath away for a moment to hear God say, “I love you”? To which we, in our sinfulness,… — David Platt Copy Share Image
One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots… — Georges Courteline Copy Share Image
I mean, I grew up in a community where people took care of each other. I grew up in a community where… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when… — Cheryl James Copy Share Image
“This is the book, then, and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
In childhood, we used to read stories from the Arabian Nights. Why were we so interested when it happened somewhere in Arabia,… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me:… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an… — Grimes Copy Share Image
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
![“I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of…” quote by Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/22e/anne-lamott-188_childhood_i-don-t-know-where-to-start-one-writing_3064070.jpg)
