In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
“Noble words, my friend; you can't drink them or wrap them around your feet or burn them in your firepit or give… — Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
“There are other advantages," continued the child. "For instance, if one rat were cornered by nine cats, on the average, each cat… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“I am not a child, and I know plenty of love. Love is wanting to be with that person for the rest… — Devri Walls Copy Share Image
Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“Shall I tell her? Shall I be a kind and merciful narrator and take our girl aside? Shall I touch her new,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“and only much later, when Mascha wanted a child, did I realize that love is a deadly poison, a vice, a vice… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Adults need spiritual apprenticeships as much as their children do—and adults need them first. Group spiritual direction, covenant groups, practice in oral… — Kenda Creasy Dean Copy Share Image
I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“I don't want to make her [Maggie] a target again," I said. Michael sighed patiently. "Harry," he said, as if speaking to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
I just feel like it's fascinating to me just watching my own family, seeing my cousins have children here, seeing the generations… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“they thought they couldn’t, through work and fierce effort. Teaching a child to accept and even embrace struggle, rather than shy away… — Katty Kay Copy Share Image
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“When the children of Israel left Egypt, they were guided by the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“People have a much greater chance of finding something they’ll enjoy doing and making those greatest contributions when they trust themselves and… — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
I want Barack Obama for president. I love Obama. I call Palin the helicopter huntress from hell! I want my children to… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman.… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Each of us spends money on things that we do not really need. You could take the money you're spending on those… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
“The magnificent houses, the three old-money brick houses, each with a small turret and a wraparound porch, had been built uptown near… — Bonnie Burnard Copy Share Image
But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem… — Mark Oliver Everett Copy Share Image
Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
The modern era of feminism is how you track that at its beginning. It manifested itself in crazy ways. Parents would try… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The trees had stripped down to their black bones and had heaped leaves in drifts against hedges and walls. Children played amongst… — J.L. Carr Copy Share Image
Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services.… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Traditional companies have been subject to licensing for many years. Attention utilities should be required to obey limits on data extraction and… — Tristan Harris Copy Share Image
“From the first day I met his daughter, all I could think about was snuffling up under that sweet dimity like some… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image