“Every day, God gives us the sun - and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I think the time that I knew that I was capable of all the things that I disliked the most in other… — Michka Assayas Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I'm gonna be dead one day, and what people say about me is going what I… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I racked my brain trying to remember the names of all of Nut’s five children. Bit difficult without my brother, the human… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“It is therefore perfectly plausible that memories of childhood sexual abuse could be buried for years and then recalled, and that motivated… — Moheb Costandi Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The psyche cannot tolerate a vacuum of love. In the severely abused or deprived child, pain, dis-ease, and violance rush in to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they're all lazy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Ahhh, to be a kid again where you can say something silly and not be judged, hit someone and not catch a… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
“As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I received a wonderful email after I spoke at a school from a girl who'd lived in a war zone and endured… — Simon Weston Copy Share Image
“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I would say that children are more resilient than you realize, and that as long as you love them, there is no… — Al Roker Copy Share Image
“The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
People are fascinated by evil because its mysterious and it doesnt seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
“Is it necessary, do you think,’ he began, leaning in so close behind me that I could smell his breath, ‘for the… — Danielle Wood Copy Share Image
“A child (or adult) who lives in such stories will have developed the patterns of thought and affection that will be well-prepared… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
“If you want to bring forth grit in your child, first ask how much passion and perseverance you have for your own… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would… — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way? My uncle says… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching… — Kristen Wilson Copy Share Image
Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
“Life isn’t fair, Bill. We tell our children that it is, but it’s a terrible thing to do. It’s not only a… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Woe entreats: Go! Away, woe! But all that suffers wants to live, that it may become ripe and joyous and longing- longing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
