My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers,… — Dixie Carter Copy Share Image
“When I was a nursemaid at the home of the landowners, a nun who happened to pass once gave me something square… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
Won't he be a sight with his football helmet on, that will be his first love til his first love comes along,… — Brian Wright Copy Share Image
“For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “I dinna want… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“We’ve seen parents successfully use a variant of this approach when an infant cries to be fed. Instead of immediately feeding the… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
“God’s revelation does not need the light of human genius, the polish and strength of human culture, the brilliancy of human thought,… — E.M. Bounds Copy Share Image
Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
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One day we will finally see that when we reject any person or group of people, we reject a part of our… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later. That… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Over and over again women and men ... come to me saying, I don't know enough to write a book for adults,… — Mabel Robinson Copy Share Image
For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Balance in general is difficult, but I refuse to go through life and just have work and not have good balance. I… — Scooter Braun Copy Share Image
Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone.… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in child laws which are truly stupid...These schools should get… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hospitals are not bad at all; they're good… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
We talk about God as though he was like a somebody. We ask him to bless our nation, or save our Queen,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
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High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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