How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“I go to the bathroom. All my life I have been an orphan and an only child. Now I come from a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“if you’ve loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
“According to our minister, Mr. Cornelius Barker, presents were a pointless, expensive, pagan diversion. Yes, well, good luck explaining that to seven… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“We are other than what we would have been if we had crossed the oceans, if or mothers and fathers had not… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Wilbury, my dear,” Caroline said, “would you mind taking the children and keeping them occupied for a bit?” "Twould be the high… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
“The Bible says that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons to the seventh generation. But I believe it's… — Sherri Wood Emmons Copy Share Image
Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now… — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.' — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Find a way to delight in all students. Look for the best, expect the best, and find something in each child [you]… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key. — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I don't want my children growing up in a world where they think that their heritage and skin colour could be judged… — Rochelle Humes Copy Share Image
At the doors, people are telling me they are afraid to let their children go to the movies. — Ken Boshcoff Copy Share Image
To My Future Kids: I will do my best to make sure you don't grow up with divorced parents... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children,… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, my imagination was what helped me deal with some sort of negative elements in my childhood. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against… — Bible Copy Share Image
I give this advice to every parent I meet, and it's something I have believed ever since I was young - never… — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
“if you want to convince children of the power of books, don’t tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.” — Roger Sutton Copy Share Image
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Exposing a young child to the realities of love and death is far less dangerous than exposing them to the lie of… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
“A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
It was a normal childhood, like the childhoods of all children my age: going to school, playing in the street with friends,… — Sadio Mane Copy Share Image
My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Raising children made me determine what I stand for, what I believe in, and who I want to be because, ultimately, I'm… — Candace Cameron Copy Share Image
If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
I am feeling as if my parents are my children. I'm extremely protective about both of them while on the set — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless… — Lea Thompson Copy Share Image