“He released a long, disgusted breath. Life wasn’t fair. It was something he’d learned at the back of his father’s fist in… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the most painful situations can be overcome. Early childhood traumas, broken hearts, being bullied…the list is endless. It's… — Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell Copy Share Image
Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
In 2009, I pushed for the creation and funding of early childhood block grants to ensure that more kids enter kindergarten ready… — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Since early childhood, their emotions have been conditioned by the tribal premise that one must “belong,” one must be “in,” one must… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“...some adolescent survivors describe feeling special, powerful, and sometimes entitled. This is especially true of those for whom excessive attention was part… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization.… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
“The national curriculum for the Swedish preschool is twenty pages long and goes on at length about things like fostering respect for… — Linda Akeson McGurk Copy Share Image
“In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“These genetic malfunctions are unlikely to produce schizophrenia in an individual unless they are stimulated by environmental conditions. By far the most… — Ron Powers Copy Share Image
“How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than… — Charlette Mikulka Copy Share Image
Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I do remember all of the songs of my childhood and they helped us to cope with being orphans. But the memories… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
“Of course, people who have been severed from their true feelings since early childhood will be dependent on institutions like the church… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Each person decides in early childhood how he will live and how he will die... His trivial behavior may be decided by… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words:… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Despite the intervening six decades of scientific inquiry since Selye’s groundbreaking work, the physiological impact of the emotions is still far from… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“There is something living deep within us all that welcomes, even relishes, the role of victimhood for ourselves. There is no cause… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
“From early childhood he had experienced the wish to die, to commit suicide, as they say, but never was totally concentrated. He… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“He closed his eyes. This bed was a wedding gift from friends he had not seen in years. He tried to remember… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Mind is just a word we use to describe neural activity in the brain. No brain, no mind. We know this because… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Consider these traditional theories of domestic abuse: - Learned helplessness suggest that abused women learn to become helpless under abusive conditions; they… — Susan Weitzman 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