“Daffy had stopped talking, without her noticing. It was if he'd run out of words. He did a peculiar thing, then; he… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Falling into this elaborate daydream about me and Heather Craven forever after. Imagining us as married professionals with our six towheaded children… — Tommy Walker Copy Share Image
“Colton suspects we’re not just children, that we are, in fact, the terrifying things that go bump in the night. But, no,… — Eliza Crewe Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my… — Andrea Martin Copy Share Image
In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and… — Graeme Le Saux Copy Share Image
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Kids are so smart these days. They sense when there's a phony bologna out there. Especially in music, when they see something… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
We think is happening in the brain, the way I like to think about it is, it's almost like, you're brain is… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen… — Jane Fonda 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
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
“Like most Istanbul Turks I had little interest in Byzantium as a child. I associated the word with spooky, bearded, black-robed Greek… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“But wasn’t that what fear was, at its essence? A direct conduit to the inner child, through all the armor and fortifications… — Paul Antony Jones Copy Share Image
I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
“I am. A child is helpless; I think it is the betrayal that destroys them. But a grownup is – usually –… — B.G. Harlen Copy Share Image
By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what… — Ayelet Waldman 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
There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
