You can think everything is dire, but you act as if there's possibility. I see children coming into the world as an… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. . . . . For He is our childhood's pattern, Day by… — Cecil Frances Alexander Copy Share Image
There can never be any excuse for sacrificing our childrens futures to keep corporate tax loopholes and tax giveaways to millionaires. If… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
“I remember saying to my mother, ‘Why do you have so many children? Is it hard to have children?’ And she said,… — Margaret Powell Copy Share Image
Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
“You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think they could of recast the children, I heard of people wanting to do something like that. That would be a… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
He was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym,… — Jude Deveraux Copy Share Image
“The far end of a continuum that aims to break the will of a child and allows the expression of displaced rage… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
“Let us take care of the children...for they have a long way to go. Let us take care of the elders...for they… — Indigenous Copy Share Image
My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“O Heavenly Children, do not forget that God is here, there and everywhere. The birds are his eyes and the air is… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
My daughter told me, 'Daddy, if I don't make it, I don't want you to stop helping these other kids.' So that's… — Rod Carew Copy Share Image
“Who was going to raise 12 million children? That was what I suddenly wanted to know…Who was teaching 12 million children how… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
“Joe asks how long they've been there one of them says fuck off another says a week a third calls him a… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Many people think that hunger is unavoidable in any society, even a society that is blessed with great abundance. That is not… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“So today’s talk was about achieving childhood dreams,” I said. “But did you figure out the head fake?” I paused. The room… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“from "Semele Recycled" But then your great voice rang out under the skies my name!-- and all those private names for the… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
“Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
A parent of moral standing will never use their child to hurt others because they understand that at some point it will… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate.… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
We're doing terribly. We're leaving these unborn children trillions of dollars of debt, which is just horrific. We're leaving nuclear weapons -… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“What the rust do you matter? Who cares about you? Well, that’s the thing, isn’t it? Once, you did have people who… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
“I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own… — Ashley Ormon Copy Share Image