Kids who participate in school meal programs get roughly half of their calories each day at school. ... This is an extraordinary… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Oh scattered band, once my playmates, you few Who were amidst the gardens here and there in the city, How hesitantly we… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I always liked major-key music quite a bit, and that might have something to do with so many of the musical experiences… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
A lot of the people who are supposed to be enforcing the crime, enforcing the law, are also criminals. They've suppressed something… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon… — Joan Bennett Copy Share Image
There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Kids are price less. They are loud, funny, loveable, crazy, funny, and a hand full. Even though they look so peaceful and… — Sinahi Martinez Copy Share Image
How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“I was almost seventeen when the spell of my childhood was broken. There was no sudden jolt, no immediate awakening and no… — Judith Kinghorn Copy Share Image
It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Tehlu’s angels. They were like… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
I did everything to get food. I have stolen for food. I have jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food.… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Becoming a part of the Marvel Universe was my childhood dream. Like most kids growing up, I read a lot of comic… — Stefan Kapicic Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was what the costumes were about, the goofy T-shirts, but inside her head, which is where she heard the music,… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
~¥~ Childhood is the only period where we don't know this world, where we are unaware of what is happening around us.à… — Nadhira Copy Share Image
“I didn't like what that word-'childhood'-conjured up, or rather, I didn't like the way most people use it: that presumption of innocence… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
“She'd loved birds long before her physical limitations kept her grounded. She'd found a birding diary of her grandmother's in a trunk… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
