“The Wall had turned their street into a cul-de-sac where children roller-skated. Then in 1990 the Wall was cleared away piece by… — Jenny Erpenbeck Copy Share Image
“easy thing for a spirit to get used to. It is very confining, very limiting. So the child will cry out at… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Sometimes in this life, your adult children can be your worst nightmare and become enemies of your soul. Hurts and pains are… — Olivia Elizabeth Brooks Copy Share Image
“When you have a child, you start to dream of how this kid will grow up and make you proud. The only… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
~~Letter From daughter To Father~~ It seems as only yesterday you were here with me, and I was sitting with you talking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With the coming of spring they would start back to the highlands, their flocks heavy with fat and wool; the caravans loaded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Will there be enough to go around, or must we compete for our kills?" "Unfortunately, I suspect there will be plenty, but… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“If you have people who treat you badly in your life, they will be a human shield against people who will treat… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“When people are kids their parents teach them all sorts of stuff, some of it true and useful, some of it absurd… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Teachers were not allowed to beat children as they did in the past, although, Mma Ramotswe reflected, there were some boys-and indeed… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“All my girlhood I always planned to do something big…something constructive. It’s queer what ambitious dreams a girl has when she is… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Buttercups" When we were children our papas were stout And colorless as seaweed or the floats At anchor off New Bedford. We… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“A mother's body against a child's body makes a place. It says you are here. Without this body against your body there… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“ABUSIVE MEN COME in every personality type, arise from good childhoods and bad ones, are macho men or gentle, “liberated” men. No… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“So the best defense against porn, for every member of our family, is a full life--the kind of life that technology cannot… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“An adult can be fully aware of his feelings only if he had caring parents or caregivers. People who were abused and… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
(1/2)I can't blame you. This world is so difficult. It used to be so safe from harm sooo safe you can keep… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
“I have been thinking about existence lately. In fact, I have been so full of admiration for existence that I have hardly… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Oh, thank goodness,” the child said woefully, plopping down on the marble floor beside Blotchy. She ran searching fingers over her cheeks… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Here: an exercise in choice. Your choice. One of these tales is true. She lived through the war. In 1959 she came… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Kate, the mother of thirteen, is forty-nine; delicately made; her skin creamlike where the weather has not got at it. She is… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“And if that illustration will not move you, here is another: -- We are children now; we feel as children, and we… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“I call the violent kind of "upbringing" abuse, not only because children are thus refused the right to dignity and respect as… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
“Dark, was banned by the Irish state censor for obscenity. The story was set, as so much of McGahern's later fiction would… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“The sisters' voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos tuned in childhood to the same pitch and timbre. To the ear, they were… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“A ROAR OF THE LORD "I have observed how the enemy believes that he has succeeded in ending the plans I… — Jeffrey Stewart Copy Share Image
“Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Work by Martha Farah of the University of Pennsylvania, Tom Boyce of UCSF, and others demonstrates something outrageous: By age five, the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You will be outraged by this who's going to protect the kids involved when battered women can't even tell their truth your… — H.G. Beverly Copy Share Image
“...we're a people who pollute the very air we breathe. And our rivers. We're destroying the great lakes; Erie is already gone,… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“MEMORY'S SO TREACHEROUS. ONE MOMENT YOU'RE LOST IN A CARNIVAL OF DELIGHTS, WITH POIGNANT CHILDHOOD AROMAS , THE FLASHING NEON OF PUBERTY,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted… — Paula Polk Lillard Copy Share Image
“SPACEBALL RICOCHET" "I'm just a man I understand the wind And all the things that make the children cry With my Les… — Marc Bolan Copy Share Image
“She told me that Melisande had borne a daughter, and that one day . . . one day she would like for… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
“Now and again, one could detect in a childless woman of a certain age the various characteristics of all the children she… — tom robbins Copy Share Image
“I still dream in pictures and color, always the world of my childhood. I see the purple Judas trees at Easter lighting… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
