The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national… — Meg Tilly Copy Share Image
“You are my family. If we never have children, I will be disappointed, but if I never have you, I will be… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“Children accept the conditions they are born into, and, to a degree, I was getting used to the bombings, fires, and death… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have a childhood that was _not_ like mine. I have no real… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It's still a great, big, beautiful, wonderful world no matter what the headlines of the newspapers are and it's there to be… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
I have a terrible memory of my own past. I can barely remember my childhood. I have few memories from college and… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
None of my family is in the industry. But I watched movies like an insane person when I was a child. I… — Danielle Macdonald Copy Share Image
I didnt have the kind of childhood or family life that would have given me any perspective on what a happy home… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if… — Juice Newton Copy Share Image
“There could be no real dialogue between those who still thought that time was on their side and those who realized that… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The older lady harrumphed. "I warned you, daughter. This scoundrel Hades is no good. You could've married the god of doctors or… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general.… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
It's very fashionable to talk about human trafficking in this fantastic AC hall. It's very nice for discussion, discourse, making films and… — Sunitha Krishnan Copy Share Image
I was in a very deep state of shock after that. I had raised my horse since he was six months old… — Jeff Miller Copy Share Image
Men typically marry for love and to raise children. The mistake they make is that they're looking for love from the wrong… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Meditation for me is not a children's play, it is a deep transformation. How to know this transformation? It is being reflected… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The dugout in the weeds or leaves beneath a backyard willow, the rivulet of a seasonal creek, even the ditch between the… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
“Give grace to your children today by speaking of sin and mercy. Tell Susan that she can relax into God’s loving embrace… — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“From another visitor to Yasnaya Polyana we learn that Tolstoy and his two daughters are vegetarians. The young countesses do not object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“My name is Hazel. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more, to be honest.… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
