I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear. — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“NURSE. There, there, there. A father has something besides his child, but a mother has nothing but her child. CAPTAIN.” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“Children will always learn from us. If we are angry, abusive and violent...how can we ever expect them to be peaceful?” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Money and arrogance have the power to write tales of oppression, and the pen has the power to turn those tales into… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take? — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“These kids, her multitudes, they could grow up. They could move Away. They could—they would—become new, become changed, become actual adult people… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“Max had to think about these new developments. He hadn't liked getting hit by a rock--his stomach still ached from then rock… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Perhaps at this time in your life you are tired and frustrated—with your career, with your marriage, with your children, with society,… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“They’re kids Apollo. Young kids. And they don’t need to know their father has a bed partner.” “I won’t exactly be sharing… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“Kids are amazing. The first few months, they're just like these loaves of bread that shit. You're wondering what the hell you… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad.… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I need something bigger than myself. And the only thing that can be would be a child. Someone who would help me… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“My children ain’t the only thing I love. If I was allowed, I reckon I’d love myself, too.” — Dolen Perkins-Valdez Copy Share Image
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves. — Ingrid Weir Copy Share Image
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage. — Dave Reichert Copy Share Image
“There are not seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” — Walt Streightiff Copy Share Image
“He could have loved her as a man loves a woman, protected her, provided for her, given her children, grown old with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown. Demi Lovato — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“Our ethics are not meant to be created in our childhoods and shoved in a box somewhere; they must be reshaped daily,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be… — Karen Gillan Copy Share Image
She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names. — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor. — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed. — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
