It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticize you. It's the worst… — Tea Leoni Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most important thing for a child is to be with a loving, supportive family. And all things being equal,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
If there is an amateur reader still left in the world—or anybody who just reads and runs—I ask him or her, with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very close to my parents. I admire them and respect them enormously. But my childhood unfortunately coincided with the end of… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
“When I was born it was Simon who they'd put once more into his arms, the dream of a child he could… — Phillipe Grimbert Copy Share Image
“I felt like a trophy child, someone he had around to show off. It felt like it was more important that his… — H.M. Ward Copy Share Image
Fascism is not [only] squads of the SA or the Blackshirts marching on the streets. Fascism is officials, in uniforms ordering what… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
“When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The people of Indonesia have to learn, realize, that fighting for a better country is great and inspiring. Like those men, women,… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“Every new thought of mine is like my child. And as soon as it is conceived, I must abandon it. I might… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“They were giving their childhood to this woman! They were starting at seven, and by the time they were sixteen they were… — Alan Taylor Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We are never without our technology. It surrounds us. It permeates our lives. We have powerful computers in our pockets, and we… — Lance Ulanoff Copy Share Image
Teach your children to listen carefully and to speak thoughtfully. The best way to teach this is to listen carefully and speak… — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men, and I have never wavered from that… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
We thought it was a bad idea, just the idea of your own daughter sort of putting herself at the very front… — Svante Thunberg Copy Share Image
“As a child I'd longed for Thomas Stone or at least the idea of him. So many mornings I waited for him… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had… — Owen Hart Copy Share Image
“There are many heartfelt reasons for pushing our childhood sexual abuse to the edge of our lives and one amazing reason to… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image