I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“While we took the children off to Disneyland. A visit to this magical kingdom should be a compulsory part of being an… — Sallyann Murphey Copy Share Image
Somewhere in my early twenties I realized I was pretty constantly monitoring myself, judging how I was always falling short, whether it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
“Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word... SACRIFICE.… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if… — Phil Esposito Copy Share Image
There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans...hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow… — Swoosie Kurtz Copy Share Image
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
“One by one, she conjured all the boxes she'd been put into: The good girl box and the good Christian box...the mistress… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In my research, I found that since 1979, women have lost the equivalent to one night's sleep due to the pressures of… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
“The problem is that children believe what adults say and once they're adults themselves they exact their revenge by deceiving their own… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your familyyou have to know what you're capable of handling… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Lamar, why do they go into a trance when I change into this?” I ask as I go phantom and change into… — Kristy Cunning Copy Share Image
In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her family… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“You said I could be anything I wanted when I was older', I said. She smiled and said, 'And you can be.… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
Child hunger and child obesity are really just two sides of the same coin. Both rob our children of the energy, the… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“The family has always been a very important part of Italian life. In country areas, it is still common for grandparents, parents,… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Who are these sons and daughters? They are the ones who know the love and affirmation of a father. They are not… — James W. Goll Copy Share Image
People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“A busy and crowded station. Full of people trying to go somewhere. Amongst the hustle and bustle, two large cages rattle on… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
“We are taught...Love your neighbor as yourself (Mark 12:31) So say a prayer for children in despair and then go out and… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“When I was a child her sureness enraged me (regardless of the argument involved). It was a sureness that revealed - at… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Any earthly production would have been cancelled at the slightest suggestion of rain, but this was William’s Stage—it was William’s call—and if… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and… — Bible Copy Share Image
Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“That summer I got to know four families in which half the children were gay. In case you’re interested from a sociological… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
