Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible,… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When I look at my childhood art, it's the same. It's animals dressed up as people in patterned clothing. It basically looked… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
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I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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I have heard, seen and dealt with a lot of issues, but what gets me most is the shocking statistics about exercise… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
“Maturity Is Knowing Who You Choose Matters Most. We don’t choose our parents. We don’t choose our children. But we do choose… — Matheesha Prathapa Copy Share Image
You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to… — Carolyn Haywood Copy Share Image
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Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
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My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many… — Louis Bacon Copy Share Image
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You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students. It requires no method, no tools, and… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise),.4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
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As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care… — Jeanne Woodford Copy Share Image
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children… — Morris Dees Copy Share Image
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
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“and it goes, the music just goes, without faltering, without hesitation, not depleted through repetition, but enriched; and as it goes- without… — Evan Dara Copy Share Image
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I'm a believer of destiny and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs and I've seen the lows and I… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way.… — Hakeem Olajuwon Copy Share Image
“Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
There were certain great principles involved in the organization of this earth, and one was that there might be a place provided… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
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