Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a…

Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew…

— Lorraine Toussaint

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on…

— Iain Duncan Smith

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as…

— Alice Walker

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To…

— Jeremy Northam

I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life, it was…

— Annie Wersching

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was…

— Johnny Cash

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.”

— Mitch Albom

As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper…

— Lewis H. Lapham

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up

— Walt Disney

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to…

— Jonathan Lethem

If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate…

— Stanley Greenspan

As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of…

— Robin G. Collingwood

I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in…

— Salman Rushdie