“The only people who should be allowed to govern countries with nuclear weapons are mothers, those who are still breastfeeding their babies."--Tsutomu… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
My father was very strict, a very militant parent, because he wanted us to be very focused kids. He sold the televisions,… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
“And so, beginning with the small early frustrations and deprivations, the child is helped to govern himself. his ego develops by learning… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
“I realized that the childish impression I had always had of my father, as Just Lawgiver, was entirely wrong. We were utterly… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Once parents have a clear idea of their important parenting goals, beliefs, and values, they can then think about specific situations and… — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or… — Roy Romer Copy Share Image
From the very start, if there was a spotlight, I would step into it. My parents wondered what to do with this… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I end with a blessing from Larry Hine, Brennan Manning’s spiritual director, who delivered this benediction at Manning’s ordination service: May all… — J R Briggs Copy Share Image
I guess I want very much to be recognized for my abilities, for the work I put in, and yet it's still… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
I have always been fiery; I go after things. But what I learned from my mother is to step back and actually… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“At school, he enacted a major piece of treachery against his parents. His right hand was Evil Dad, and his left was… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His… — Bible Copy Share Image
“Sylvie's sort of pregnant. Well not sort of. She is. Pregnant. Actually pregnant with a baby.' 'Oh Dexter! Do you know the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I am a father and I know the feel of being a father, why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also… — Juan Pablo Galavis Copy Share Image
“They suspected that children learned best through undirected free play—and that a child’s psyche was sensitive and fragile. During the 1980s and… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
“I worry about exposing him to bands like Journey, the appreciation of which will surely bring him nothing but the opprobrium of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and… — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
School, for me, was not a place where you went to be educated, but a place where you got away from your… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
A mother asked her little girl to hold her hands as they were walking along the beach. No mommy you hold mine… — Jazmine Copy Share Image
“numbers. According to a 2007 survey conducted by AOL and the family magazine Cookie, 94 percent of parents say their children are… — Richard Bromfield Copy Share Image
“He reached under the bench to retrieve his crutch. His father had carved the crutch from the branch of a fallen wych… — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share Image
I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality.… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
I would love to make a film, because storytelling happens only in movies. I would explore relationships in my movies. Maybe, the… — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
Children are all unique, so when you're blending families it's really important to get to know each individual child... Being a stepparent… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“People die, sure,” my mother was saying. “But it’s so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Our message to parents is to focus on the process the child engages in, such as trying hard or focusing on the… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“Consider Nelson Mandela who related; “When I had been released from prison and came home to my family, I went to… — Suzann Dodd Copy Share Image
“Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves.… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Junior, stop being orner.” It’s what Mama used to say to us when we were little, and I say it to Junior… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Mr. Levov was one of those slum-reared Jewish fathers whose rough-hewn, undereducated perspective goaded a whole generation of striving, college-educated Jewish sons:… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
“That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
