For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“and only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lovers, when something really needs… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
“crazed mother her dead child. One day, I don’t know which, I found myself in this world, having lived unfeelingly from the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
“Most of us make our minds like spoilt children, allowing them to do whatever they want. Therefore it is necessary that Kriya-yoga… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Thankfully, the farmers understand my request that the children not be allowed to peer through the windows at me. It would be… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'.… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . .… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“A lot of the stories were highly suspicious, in her opinion. There was the one that ended when the two good children… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's… — Marshall Herskovitz Copy Share Image
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started… — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
“From a distance the head is a bowling ball on the shoulders, but not so: a carapace and inside, the contents are… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“It’s natural for children to drift through their early childhood taking their parents for granted, then adolescence rears its ugly head and… — G. M. Frazier Copy Share Image
Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“She said, "I wish I had been born poor." ("I wish I'd been born an Indian" - Robert Kennedy.) The ideal would… — Sigrid Núñez Copy Share Image
In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we… — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
“[B]oth my husband and I are the eldest in largish families and both of us had childhoods punctuated by pregnancies, the weeklong… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“When people say that school prepares children for the real world, what's implied is that it is the difficult parts of school… — Rue Kream Copy Share Image
She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“But even a nice mom and dad like this can't really sense how their child's been assaulted by commercialism ever since she… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
“Snow-quiet, sleep-silent, only the fun-fire faraway songsinging of children; and the room was blue with cold, colder than the cold of fairytales:… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image