I am writing to make sure that kids don't lose very important traits like curiosity that can drive social change because oftentimes… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
“The next day I lay out on the grass in our backyard and I looked straight into the sun, the way my… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for new friends, and for this evening of fellowship. We ask that you guide our conversations, and… — Virginia Smith Copy Share Image
“She had applied to college without her parents' knowledge, and when she got her choral scholarship she broke from childhood, choosing music… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“If I hadn’t known better, I would have guessed you’d done that before.” “I googled it,” Cole said. “What?” Cole chuckled. “While… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Every human being needs to know to be a great parent, for a teacher to be a great teacher, and for a… — Judith E. Glaser Copy Share Image
How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It's especially difficult when siblings leave the nest and grow into their own person, often apart from other siblings and parents. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
“He was a strong and noble lord with piercing eyes of grey. He sat upon his noble throne shining like the dawn.… — Laurel A. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“Why isn't there a commandment to "honor thy children" or at least one to "not abuse thy children"? The notion that we… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
“But, Father Murray didn’t want to say Mass, he wanted to play a round of golf. Father Murray told his associate pastor… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
“Found in a small stone cave bitten from the roadside, stitchless save for his great outsized boots and a plague of flies,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I've thought many times, 'I can't write this,' but on my own little planet I found the courage to write it because… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until the whole jungle filled with roaring… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
After spending my pre-teen years as the singer in a bluegrass band, I convinced my parents to let me drop out of… — Carly Pearce Copy Share Image
[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
There was a moment of extraordinary humbleness and humility and pride, as well, with my father when he turned to me -… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I've always been the, 'Sure, I'll try that' guy. I'm very adventurous and don't have fears. I think I got that from… — Donald Trump, Jr Copy Share Image
My mother has always instilled in us that we should carry ourselves with dignity despite the horror that came with the civil… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
I have tried to teach my siblings not to detest insult or berate, but I cannot follow my own advice when I… — Tiana Webb Copy Share Image
“Sweet mother of God. I was kidding about you crushing on her, but I’m right. Oh my God, you are totally jealous… — T.E. Sivec Copy Share Image
“There are parts of a woman’s heart that are reserved for certain types of love. Experiencing the love of a father figure… — Corallie Buchanan Copy Share Image
Just because someones parents are together, someone has a nice house, has nice clothes, isnt poor, eats every day and has a… — Ream Copy Share Image
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
From a very young age, my father put a lot of fear in me and it worked. I think it's important for… — Scott Baio Copy Share Image
“Some say an army of horsemen, some of footsoldiers, some of ships, is the fairest thing on the black earth, but I… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“At home, my father ate all the most burnt pieces of toast. 'Yum!' he'd say, and 'Charcoal! Good for you!' and 'Burnt… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“not, little s flock, for t it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you u the kingdom. 33 v Sell your possessions, and w give to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don’t know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish; I could be part Negro;… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“In the mango grove, shade poured into his black eyes, when playing as a boy, when his mother sang, when the sacred… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
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Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I don't know that Dilla was the father of neo-soul as much as he was highly influential in that time when he… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image