“In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox in the… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
“I'll tend to her as no mother ever tended a child, a daughter. Nobody will ever get my milk no more except… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“Some people argue that teaching children financial basics is the parents’ job. However, this well-meant sentiment is what we’re relying on now,… — Eric Tyson Copy Share Image
I've seen my fair share of drama over the years of Children In Need. I had a close brush with mortality in… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
“In 1902, he became engaged to Emma Rauschenbach, whom he married and with whom he had five children. Up till this point,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings,… — David Almond Copy Share Image
I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes… — Leah Remini Copy Share Image
I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Our faith should be expressed in working toward a better planet for our children and not the selfish, juvenile hope for a… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“I am persuaded that the phrase 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If I say to my daughter, "Go say 'hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time… — Edie Falco Copy Share Image
Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,/A secret that my daddy said was just between us.”/He said, “Daddies don't… — George Strait Copy Share Image
The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I've had a wonderful life, I've been a husband and a father who cherishes his children and now I'm a grandfather, and… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras have all agreed to send additional consular officers from Guatemala, from Honduras, from El Salvador, send them to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I don't have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can… — Lauren Velez Copy Share Image
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
My mother imparted on me that I must be a good custodian of my father's name and that is what I ask… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
“It had grown cold in the night but he was numb with other weathers. An equinox in the heart, ill change, unluck.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career - and let's… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
My wife and I are constantly bombarded with questions from our children, from the mundane and repetitive to the surprisingly insightful. It's… — Scott Foley Copy Share Image
I recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters,… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
Every movement's fight for justice in policy and representation in every corner of our country has an impact on every other. And… — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
