And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
My methods are all because of my experiences as a nanny. Parents have asked, 'How do you have an understanding of this… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“And yet there’s nothing to understand. The problem is that children believe what adults say and, once they’re adults themselves, they exact… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“We are not slaves but children of our Father, free to do good, free to sin. So when in anguish over any… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
My daughter was five when I was writing 'Minari,' very much close to the age of David. And I was about to… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Intelligence may be taken as a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of moral advance. All morally advanced children are bright, but not… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were… — Clement Clarke Moore Copy Share Image
Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
When I'm doing something, it's something that I had a perspective on in my childhood, or now, but it may be different.… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Try explaining to them that a working woman is no less responsible for her home... There are the children to be washed,… — Mariama Bâ Copy Share Image
“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“Children have generative power. They create meaning as they busily connect with whatever is happening. But grown-ups often forget that ability. They… — Martin Linsky Copy Share Image
“There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know… — James P. Hogan Copy Share Image
“Which reality should we focus on? Should we focus on the trauma itself? Should we focus on the heroism of women, men,… — Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky Copy Share Image
I think a lot of us who had these oddly shaped childhoods, in some ways we're hyper-capable. We're able to take care… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
“Security is mostly a superstition," Kaden quotes. "It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“ ELECTIVE MUTISM Social anxiety appears in many forms, some of which are only now coming to light. Socially anxious children, for… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“program and not. “It’s just like sports,” Dhuey said. “We do ability grouping early on in childhood. We have advanced reading groups… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“One morning, a child comes into the broad corridor of the house and greets me. I am shaving, unprepared for a guest.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“As you put your children to bed, spend at least three minutes of private time, after books and bathroom and teeth-brushing, and… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
When my parents force-fed me healthy food, they were confident they were giving me the best. But now, when I feed my… — Vijay Sethupathi Copy Share Image
The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
