We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them. — Jess Lair Copy Share Image
My daughter is like a tether back to the functional world, and I'm aware of how helpful that is. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
“You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives… — Jill Eikenberry Copy Share Image
Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child. — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
The curiosity that children have has greater potential to become genius, when we direct them in proper channel and encouragement. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,’ said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam’s gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is… — Hendrik Verwoerd Copy Share Image
If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“Let your children see what a loving relationship is. In a world that has skewed the word love to fit their purposes,… — Kimberly Rae Jordan Copy Share Image
There was a commonality in a lot of the private school experiences that I had of children whose lives were not their… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“I was almost seventeen when the spell of my childhood was broken. There was no sudden jolt, no immediate awakening and no… — Judith Kinghorn Copy Share Image
My kids are the reason I continue to strive for something better. They know - as kids who are Muslim, Somali, black… — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.” — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
As a teenager in Scotland, I had American friends, sons and daughters of officers at a U.S. Air Force base. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the… — Blythe Danner Copy Share Image
As a child I was painfully embarrassed by everything, always blushing and unable to make eye contact. — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
“They called themselves flower children and advocated free love, yet all too often what they experienced was not so much love as… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
I love Australia and loved growing up here, and that's something I don't want to deny our children, but it's difficult sustaining… — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
“The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is impossible to make it a crime to take your eyes off your children without also making it a crime to… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I love my children dearly, they are my blood. I want nothing more to have them back in my life. — Jocelyn Wildenstein Copy Share Image
I tell my children, some people can be more talented than you. Some people can be faster, stronger, but there is never… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
Children hop around Phylakopi on sea-polished pebbles the size of bean bags and bask themselves, alongside the lizards, astride the sturdily built… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my… — Goldie Copy Share Image
Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own, I hate them with… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
When a child is out of control, he or she needs you, the parent, to make them feel safe. — Didi Conn Copy Share Image
“You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Whoever withdraws their heart from wife, child, and parents and loves me, is my real lover. — Sri Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Something you are doing everyday is what your children will remember the rest of their lives. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? what they teach them?” — Plato Copy Share Image
I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. [after having her daughter] — Tea Leoni Copy Share Image