Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs,… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
There was a big age difference between me and my brothers - about 10 years - so I was an only child… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that… — Columba Bush Copy Share Image
What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
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“I was crazy. I was crazy in the way a child is crazy, in the way of someone who believes, with rash… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
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Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
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“From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight. This being that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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As a child I was a good boy. Even if I wasn't playing tennis I don't think I'd have done things like… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
“I still remember the day I got my first calculator Teacher: All right, children, welcome to fourth grade math. Everyone take a… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
For my mom, the child that misbehaved the most was kind of like her favorite student by the end of the year.… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
No one can posses an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Being called 'The Heartbreak Kid', 'Mr. Wrestlemania,' and all those other names doesn't even begin to compare to what it feels like… — Shawn Michaels Copy Share Image
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“We humans do thousand and one thing to impress others and show to the world that we are smart and wise but… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Yet here we are, two children and a broken promise later, standing before each other, just the way we stood that day… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I married a miner myself. I had ten children. I've got seven now; thirty-one grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. And I'm happy to… — Florence Reese Copy Share Image
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next,… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
“Patience is the fair handmaid and daughter of faith; we cheerfully wait when we are certain that we shall not wait in… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry… — Bob Carlisle Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I'm the granddaughter to Carrie, a sharecropper from Louisiana, crippled at a young age by polio. The granddaughter to Lettie Ruth, a… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
“Developmental issues, such as being adopted or experiencing a significant loss or trauma as a child, are also significant. Children often believe… — Daniel G. Amen Copy Share Image
I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“Children," Johanna drawled out. "They're such a joy. When you get married and have a family of your own, you'll understand what… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image