“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
French parents are very concerned about their kids. They know about pedophiles, allergies, and choking hazards. They take reasonable precautions. But they… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Among some tossed-out books of my daughter's which I rescued...was one too awful to live. I returned it to the trash, resisting… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
“According to a recent article in the New York Times, few parents expose their children to those works in the original these… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.' 'I'm sure I didn't mean - '… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
It was so hard to get people to understand that kids could improvise. But I actually think they're much better than adults,… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
“Terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere . . . simply decide to hate [others]. It happens because children aren't… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
My childhood would be bland without your nurture, love and care. My teenage days would be boring without your advice, pampering and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class.… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time with my children. I like to go to the country with them, where we can spend… — Stanley R. Jaffe Copy Share Image
Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“I think drawing is a celebration and connection to my childhood. To draw in public is to open yourself to people with… — Bill McDonough Copy Share Image
It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“One of my earliest childhood memories is getting birdshot picked out of my backside by my mother, Mary. My mother would say,… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
Most children of the underclass are born out of wedlock; relationships are fleeting and unstable (which ensures that what is born into… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives… — Roop Durgapal Copy Share Image
When a child is born, the exact moment it draws its first breath should be noted, as that moment, and not the… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“There seemed no way to make him understand an upbringing in which certain areas of the body were too shameful to be… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Imagine you are a pregnant young woman with tuberculosis. The father of your unborn child is a short-tempered alcoholic with syphilis, a… — Sean McDowell Copy Share Image
Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Every day life is being conceived somewhere. Every day someone is carrying a child. Every day someone is giving birth to a… — Elizabeth Clare Prophet Copy Share Image
The two words that I've arrived at to describe what we all need to feel about ourselves, children and adults, in order… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
When you're a father you censor yourself. You get just as angry with a child but you don't want to say, "What… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Hopefulness is the heartbeat of the relationship between a parent and child. Each time a child overcomes the next challenge of hislife,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“See, seeing him and how much he loved his wife, his daughter, how much he missed them, I changed. I was careful… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and… — William Galston Copy Share Image
...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love. And it was real. When I write about her now,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“As with husbands and wives, so with many fathers and daughters, and so with some sons and mothers: the man will himself… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You lose what individualism you have, if you have enough of course, you retain some of it, but most don't have enough,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Effective crime reduction policies involved early parenting classes, increasing the quality of education that children received, and providing children with a safe… — R.D. Brady Copy Share Image
With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image