Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
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“So I'm explaining intrinsic value to my 4 year old daughter - who loves toy cats - and ask her, if she… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
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It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It doesn't work. It… — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Nancy, you know I’m not really good at this mothering business,” she says. “You’re a lovely child, the fault is not with… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
My son is an inspired child, a very positive and happy child. The year he was born, he travelled 13 countries with… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
Years ago I sang on a track using that voice and someone asked, 'Who is that terribly depressed man' ... But Patrick… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
“This is what every parent of every child needs to understand: the law does a very good job of exposing your child’s… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
To say that you have to carry to term and look after a child for the rest of your life is to… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It… — John Powell Copy Share Image
“We all fashion ourselves to the false world in which we live and in so doing become false ourselves. I saw this… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
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The notion that you have to hold something in your head seems to have been forgotten. It is an absurdity that children… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“Mistakes are memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It is the child of avarice, the brother of inequity, and father of mischief. It has been the ruin of many worthy… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“mostly unsuccessful attempts to teach grade-school children English using transformational grammar were made during the 1960s and early 1970s. Today it is… — Bryan A. Garner Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Parents who struggle to get a witness of the Savior into the heart of a child will be helped as they seek… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
When I am working, I know this is my work so I can be focused for three hours, four hours, or whatever,… — Juan Martin del Potro Copy Share Image
“My loss of faith is sudden, and it's not so much a conversion as a reappraisal. Children are still modeling the world,… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“If the tree is more interesting to me than the man, I’m sorrier to see the tree felled than to see the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Life is the most effective school ever created. Once upon a time they made children bow their heads and read books. It… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a… — Marianne Fredriksson Copy Share Image
But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit,… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
At home, my daughter Azura has got this long blonde wig that she loves, and she's obsessed with Rapunzel, but you need… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I used to like people more, but now I have children and that changes your life in a lot of ways. Like… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if… — William Whately Copy Share Image
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I've been lucky enough to work with a make-up artist, Joel Harlow, who you can throw anything at. I said, "Joel, I… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
