The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Perhaps we invented the gods so that we could put the blame on them. They gave us permission to eat flesh. They… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I have often thought,” she said, “that women are the only true adults in the world, and men are a species of… — Phyllis T. Smith Copy Share Image
O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
The Conservatives have never been a party burdened by needless sentimentality; some MPs only keep their children's photos in their wallet to… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
When you think of sexual liberation, which women wanted to have or not have children, which is the choice, not a command,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Honesty remains the best policy. If parents use alcohol in moderation in front of young children, that provides the right model. Drug… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Poor William!" said he, "dear lovely child, he now sleeps with his angel mother! Who that had seen him bright and joyous… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
There's such a grace and understanding in the female persona when women have really come into their own. Part of that is… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
As a child, my sister and I had very fruitful imaginations, and I would think that I wanted to be one profession… — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted… — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies,… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“...kids marked by the special thinness that one has only once, the transparent thinness of early maturity, when, without knowing it, you… — Andrea Lee Copy Share Image
Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. Her religious… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“One has met and indeed entertained many visiting heads of state, some of them unspeakable crooks and blackguards…One has given one's white-gloved… — Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader Copy Share Image
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“Another strategy was to target kids. “The human infant enters the world without information about what is edible and what is not,”… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Death was a constant fact of life. The reaper struck with fire and drowning; typhus, malaria, yellow fever, and a host of… — Barbara Weisberg Copy Share Image
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“As for Mr. Meredith," said Miss Cornelia, "even his engagement has made a different man of him. He isn't half so dreamy… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
When I'm going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
Children. Suicide. We are only children, very young,Teenagers, and we want to commit suicide. And want say Goodbye for good. How sad… — Jasmine Copy Share Image