Writing for children is as easy as describing the history…

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

— Robin Hobb

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your…

— Jamie Johnson

I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so…

— Barbara Bush

“Loving children is easy. Keeping them is hard.”

— Michael Robotham

Raising children is not easy, and what works for one child may not work for the other.

— Cynthia Bailey

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

— William Butler Yeats

Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch…

— Frances Mayes

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of…

— Anonymous

... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive…

— Cynthia Ozick

“The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in…

— Al Masudi

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

— Edward Abbey

There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the part of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece;…

— Strabo

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

— William Butler Yeats

That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The…

— William Butler Yeats

“Like most Istanbul Turks I had little interest in Byzantium as a child. I associated the word with spooky, bearded, black-robed Greek Orthodox priests,…

— Orhan Pamuk