Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
“And I, who believe that God is love, what answer was there to give my young interlocutor whose dark eyes still held… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors, never menaces or frightens children,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“ten or twelve men, especially between brothers and between fathers and sons; but the offspring of these unions are counted as the… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“This, you see, is the true danger of children: they are ambushes, each and every one of them. A person may look… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle,… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was the first and deepest thing, and… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“Slowly the golden memory of the dead sun fades from the hearts of the cold, sad clouds. Silent, like sorrowing children, the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
There were nine children in my fathers family and eight in my mothers. My grandparents did the best with what they had.… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
“According to Plato, Socrates said: "I have, since my childhood, been attended by a semi-divine being whose voice from time to time… — José Silva Copy Share Image
If we wish to express what we want the men of future generations to be, we must say: Let them be like… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I met my birth mother as an adult, but she was always quite vague about my birth father. I knew he had… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
“This letter is for all mothers who choose exile, who walk away from everything they know in search of a safe haven.… — Parnaz Foroutan Copy Share Image
I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“She's my retirement gift, the platinum watch for being a mother." " This fortunate position - the one you couldn't apply for… — Roxana Robinson Copy Share Image
“Applying parents values back to them allot of the time is like trying to pay back a guy who is a counterfeiter… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned… — John Gibbon Copy Share Image
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child;… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
“Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think… — salman rushdie Copy Share Image
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In England, 'The Muppet Show' is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
“When I asked him what he was planning to do in Canada, he didn’t have an answer. “I don’t care about myself… — Maziar Bahari Copy Share Image
In many poor countries, if the daughter is told who she's going to marry, and told that she's going to live in… — Pietra Rivoli Copy Share Image
I'd have to think of something really creative and mind-fucking. Maybe if I adopted a child, like a foreign child, and carried… — Leven Rambin Copy Share Image
Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
“The Father protects his children, the septons taught, but Davos had led his boys into the fire. Dale would never give his… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“Assuming mother's absence is only for a short time, don't be too concerned if you find yourself being more relaxed than she… — Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia Copy Share Image
Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
“Children are accustomed to a continual stream of criticisms and praise, but adults can go weeks without a compliment while enduring criticism… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
