“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Growing up in Rochdale, I think, all the kids in my street, pretty much every boy was playing cricket. I had four… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
“She had to tell him, while she still had time, how wrong he’d been and how right she’d been. How wrong not… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“The new-born child does not realize that his body is more a part of himself than surrounding objects, and will play with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You can think you're living in the moment and you're thankful, but when somebody comes face to face with you and says,… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
“Childishness and childlikeness are two very different things. To know a childlike person, is to know a very mature person; to know… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your… — Gary Sheffield Copy Share Image
He's not a man if he's not willing to take the risk; he's not a boy if he doesn't regret his love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One victim, Harrison F. Finley, was a World War II veteran and the father of two young children. He was shot to… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
“He says my daughter, and all the love he has is wrapped up in the tone of his voice when he says… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
“Here is an oral tradition, legends passed from mouth to mouth, a communal myth created invariably at the base of the mango… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
“Do you think you're walking out on me, on your life, because you defended yourself against a monster?" "I killed my father."… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this… — Andrea O'Reilly Copy Share Image
All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services… — Samuel I. Prime Copy Share Image
“How many children were alive at the time of the Flood? When a civilization becomes evil, who usually pays the price first?… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them… — Rosemary M. Wixom Copy Share Image
I say to this generation: "We must encourage these kids." Tell them they are wonderful and capable. Be their cheerleader. And when… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Part 1 Mothers are the gift of life, they give life, they raise life and they protect it with everything they have.… — Rebecca Ried Copy Share Image
“of us want to acknowledge,” he wrote. His conclusion? “[T]o all the friends—most but not all of them white—whom I’ve chastised over… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“They feed back exactly what is given them. Because they do not believe in words - words are for "typeheads," Chester Anderson… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“She’d decided a stranger had walked into the community and violated it, sliced into her world, taken her child away from her.… — Amanda Kyle Williams Copy Share Image
And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image