'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I'm a professional. I don't want people to read something about me in the tabloids going out with celebrities or whatever. It… — Jens Lehmann Copy Share Image
“Don’t you ever point that at a white man,” she scolded. “Ma, it’s just a stick,” T.J. said. “I’m playing.” “You don’t… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“How're your children, Mrs. Phelps?' he asked. 'You know I haven't any! No one in his right mind, the good Lord knows,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“There was something that charmed her in the fact that her brother, the one true worldling in the whole tribe of Boughtons,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
“There is nothing redemptive about the loss of a child, no lessons of value it can teach you. It is too big,… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“Adolescence--the time when teens begin to do things adults do--now happens later. Thirteen-year-olds--and even 18-year-olds-- are less likely to act like adults… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up Catholic and still feel a lot of Catholic guilt. But my wife is not religious so we're not raising… — Bert Kreischer Copy Share Image
I was such a strong-willed child, my parents weren't sure how to deal with me. — Abby Huntsman Copy Share Image
I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did. — Marie Windsor Copy Share Image
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said:… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“That’s good to hear, Billy. Kids have enough shit to deal with without somebody who is supposed to love them beating the… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I said to Ramona [my daughter] once ... you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I want my kids to grow up in a world where everybody gets a fair shot. — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image
“Child development does not mean developing your child into the person you think they should be, but helping them develop into the… — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
The money men make from their willingness to work the least desirable hours is not a sign of discrimination against women, but… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“Baby, I'm not afraid. I've been to hell and back. I'm a free spirit, a wild child and a renegade.” — Mishi McCoy Copy Share Image
When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
When we first came to Jesus for salvation from our sins and to be adopted as children of God, we came humbly,… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I realize that a significant portion of a parent's happiness or sadness in middle-age will be… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Times like this, I don't wish for ignorance. I look around and I see the bloated ignorance of the lumpen proletariat: roly-poly,… — Ayize Jama-Everett Copy Share Image
Usually women are the lynchpins of the family. They carry the brunt of the work at home and of being mothers and… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings',… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
“Gregori’s silver eyes moved over both women, then settled on Shea. “The child must be protected. It is no use appealing to… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
The thing I really believe deep down is that everybody has a gift for something. Our job as adults is to make… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
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