I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“I'll always remember being called by my mother who beckoned me to look at the screen where a young man was being… — Merlin Copy Share Image
Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were… — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“many of us, as immigrants—or our parents or our grandparents—had chosen to leave our pasts behind just as the Goldens were now… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn't the center of the universe or even the centre of my own… — Shaun Micallef Copy Share Image
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
You were born a daughter/ You looked up to your mother. You looked up to your father. You looked up at everyone.… — Nike Women Copy Share Image
Sports is good for health and for children, it gives them manhood, courage, teaches them team work and coordination. Sports is something… — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
The private sector granted bursaries [scholarships] for the children of their workers. Some of them built homes for their workers. They had… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as… — Eric Carle Copy Share Image
...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Peer-oriented kids are repelled by similarity to their parents and want to be as different as possible from them. Since sameness means… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it… — Mark Morford Copy Share Image
My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain. Somehow I feel that my subconscious part creates far more… — Akram Khan Copy Share Image
“It's sad that the murdering of children abroad is a normality within our present day and within our culture as Americans. On… — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
I was born in a part of Tamil Nadu notorious for eliminating the girl child. I was the third daughter born to… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
“Surely our people do not understand even yet the rich heritage that is theirs. There can be nothing in the world more… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Fantasy isn't about escape; it's a survival mechanism. It's a way to deal with things that are so much bigger than you… — The Martian Child David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“Now she mocked and berated herself fiercely. She was mad. She, a woman of twenty, had behaved like a little twelve-year-old child.… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the most painful situations can be overcome. Early childhood traumas, broken hearts, being bullied…the list is endless. It's… — Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell Copy Share Image
Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Like the children in fairy stories who have seen their parents make pacts with terrifying strangers, who have discovered that our fears… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a… — Gary Holland Copy Share Image
“In the problem of women was the germ of a solution, not only for their oppression, but for everybody's. The control of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I decided to leave most of my wealth to my charitable foundation, which is not to be confused with my charity. My… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
“But I will tell you what I say to my children: 'Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The child should love everything he learns. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear. Once this love has… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Kids who participate in school meal programs get roughly half of their calories each day at school. ... This is an extraordinary… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Terrorism - radical jihadist terrorism is not theoretical to me. It's real. And for seven years, I spent my life protecting our… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
“to the child, the Father all for the child. We shall understand how Father and child, the Thine and the Our, are… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
By turning our culture over to the spectacle of child stars and their growing pains, we simply wind up taking their childishness… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image