“wife and children any more. I’m not even sure I know myself and what’s really important to me. I’ve had to ask… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I want to go to the mother, take her hand, and tell her that although she and her daughter believe that every… — Sarah Bird Copy Share Image
How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I had four children. And my youngest when we started was like, oh, gosh, 2 or a little less. And sometimes my… — Florence Henderson Copy Share Image
The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I think we can really use magic in a way never attempted before to inspire these children, help rally their self-confidence and… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
In Morocco, there is an insistence on authority. Children are not encouraged to speak up in front of their parents. My parents… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For,… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The idea for me is that if the movie connects with you the way I want it to connect with you, you… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their… — Hugh W. Pinnock Copy Share Image
“But when mother died, Caroline was twelve, and in that queer time between childhood and nubile girlhood, when some girls seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to… — Plato Copy Share Image
I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Their characteristics are well-known. They're beautiful -- when they're not astoundingly ugly. They're both goddesses for men to worship, and demons for… — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
“I didn't think I was so special, but actually that was the key: If this ordinary Pakistani girl could pursue the thing… — Fatima Ali Copy Share Image
I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because… — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
“[...] For instance, a gay man who played with dolls in his childhood, dresses pink and engages in anal sex with another… — Vincent Bozzino Copy Share Image
In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned.… — Phyllis Smith Copy Share Image
On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Donald Trump does represent a smashup of Washington D.C. He represents a total leveling of everything that people are angry about. And… — Hugh Hewitt Copy Share Image
“Cardan was not an easy child to love, and he's only grown worse with time. He would scream to be held, and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“BEYOND THE FARM, they’d heard, there were strange pale children who grew up entirely indoors and knew nothing of the fields and… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in… — Bettina Skrzypczak Copy Share Image
The intimate coupling of two men or two women is not marriage. It is a pale and misshapen counterfeit that will only… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
“One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect . . .… — Vicki Lansky Copy Share Image
The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image