“As a powerful deterrent to natural play, fear of liability ranks right behind the bogeyman. One goal in the fourth frontier should… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“Brooding is more something I do when I'm working. I know so much more about sitting around worrying about a work project… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
“With so many siblings to care for, rare were the times Catrina MacGreagor could climb the hill of a morning, look down… — Marti Talbott Copy Share Image
“Living with the “raw gem” of a persistent child is not easy. To tell these kids no, to thwart their efforts, is… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
“Gods are boring creatures, Bet. Most are nosthing more than spoiled children with powers they never hesitate to use against those weaker.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of things he hadn’t really… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Often children who survive extremely adverse childhoods have learned a particular survival strategy. I call it ‘strategic detachment.’ This is not the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Heather: What about my husband and the children? Caleb: Do you have a husband? Heather: No Caleb: Single mother? Heather: No Caleb:… — Cherry Adair Copy Share Image
“The new-born child does not realize that his body is more a part of himself than surrounding objects, and will play with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“No death, no suffering. No funeral homes, abortion clinics, or psychiatric wards. No rape, missing children, or drug rehabilitation centers. No bigotry,… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Jeremy Spencer, always religious to an obsessive degree, had disappeared hours before a show while on tour with Fleetwood Mac in the… — Carol Ann Harris Copy Share Image
“Qualitative and quantitative research with adults and children reporting ritual abuse has found that it occurs alongside other forms of organised abuse,… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“Silly that a grocery should depress one—nothing in it but trifling domestic doings—women buying beans—riding children in those grocery go-carts—higgling about an… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“You have been led astray, my child, by the conflicting and vain opinions of mankind. You, like many others in the world,… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
“My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary; Long is the way, and the mountains are wild; Soon will… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Lord James did not know whether to feel proud of his daughter or throttle her. He had managed to collar her quietly… — Candace L. Talmadge Copy Share Image
“Our society, including the non-religious sector, has accepted the preposterous idea that it is normal and right to indoctrinate tiny children in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“They call this an orphan train, children, and you are lucky to be on it. You are leaving behind an evil place,… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“There were no religious images in the churches or synagogues of our childhood that celebrated the birthing powers of women. According to… — Patricia Lynn Reilly Copy Share Image
“Such fatigues and hardship as these serve to wean me more from the earth; and, I trust, will make heaven the sweeter.… — David Brainard Copy Share Image
“2009, a woman decided to call the police, because she claimed that her ex-boyfriend had saved child pornography onto her computer. The… — Jeffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
“He sighed. “You’ve chosen poorly, you know. When we return to England you’ll be celebrated, just as I will be. If you’ve… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
“What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not meeting anyone for hours –… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“He was a failure, he repeated. Well, look then, feel then. Flashing her needles, glancing round about her, out of the window,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“No, child,” Nona said. “We were victims of the faeries’ pride and greed.” “Victims? Sorry, but most of you don’t seem very… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“The child destined to be a writer is vulnerable to every wind that blows. Now warm, now chill, next joyous, then despairing,… — Daphne Du Maurier Copy Share Image
“The experience of childhood sexual abuse leaves some survivors with a high tolerance for pain. Dysfunctional environments require endurance and thick skin.… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
“One and a half million Jewish men and women and children: How was anyone to understand a number like that? Andras knew… — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
“The same goes for new situations. Imagine a child who’s more afraid of the ocean than are other kids the same age.… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“It’s natural for children to drift through their early childhood taking their parents for granted, then adolescence rears its ugly head and… — G. M. Frazier Copy Share Image
“In the Kingston group, the men do little or nothing to support their families. Women and children are worked for as many… — David Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“By the time the sixties hit their home bases, we the kids, were already born, and our parents found themselves stuck between… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“I say I don’t want children, people act as if I slapped my mother. I don’t want to have children. I just… — Mishka Shubaly Copy Share Image
“The way I see Jesus has not changed much at all since I was a child, but my imprisonment and all that… — Marina Nemat Copy Share Image
“We start off in childhood believing parents might have access to a superior kind of knowledge and experience. They look, for a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol has just… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“There are two visions of America a half century from now. One is of a society more divided between the haves and… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
