Without the EPA and the national pollution safeguards it enforces, more children would have asthma. Our water would be less safe. More… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
“Both kinds of parenting, finally, are forms of overidentification. The helicopter parent turns the child into an instrument of her will. The… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
An orphaned childhood asks, Am I the outcome of someones sin or the result of transgression committed by my mother in her… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“At 1.5 children per Swedish female (The Swedish Institute 1997), the rate is so low that deaths in Sweden outpaced births in… — Christina Johansson Robinowitz Copy Share Image
I am extremely grateful for two big gifts from my father. First, my sense of humor - the ability to see the… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
“relying on our inner experience, which is the only direct way of knowing Buddha, we conceive Him as a Being with profound… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
“Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the… — Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a… — Clifford Sifton Copy Share Image
There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
I worry about women globally. When we talk about having a presidential candidate who would tear up the Paris accords, who doesn't… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
“All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take… — Heyward Ewart Copy Share Image
“You know, you spend your childhood watching TV, assuming that at some point in the future everything you see will one day… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I don't suffer from SCD myself, but I do carry the gene. This means that if I married another person who carried… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
“The disorders that psychology associates with the dissonance between what parents say to children and what children know to be reality -… — Hugh Brody Copy Share Image
“In the United Kingdom, women face wage penalties for time out of the labor force as well, with British mothers' average annual… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of… — Jennie Finch Copy Share Image
“Camille died a few days later. Our daughter's hearts bear the first real cracks they have had to endure since we came… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these children being debauched to… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“Going with it was Tenley’s superpower. Only child of a single dad, she’d learned to roll with almost any situation. The upside… — Rachel Hauck Copy Share Image
Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I… — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
“Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly,… — Daniel Keidl Copy Share Image
“When the strong healthy boy, howling at the indignity of the birth process, was put to her breast, she felt a wild… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I'm a daughter of the American revolution, my grandpa fought in World War II, I have lots of family members who… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
