“What the mud had been doing with itself, or where it came from, who could say? But it seemed to collect in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Every day Fu-shee, the smaller children, and I fan out in the hills around Green Dragon to strip trees of their bark… — See Lisa Copy Share Image
The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I saw that all who do not profess an identical faith with themselves are considered by the Orthodox to be heretics, just… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The principal difference between childhood and the stages of life into which it invariably dissolves is that as children we occupy a… — Alastair Reid Copy Share Image
Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I want to believe in a personal god who looks after me and my loved ones and knows every sparrow that falls.… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
One out of four kids in Lesotho has AIDS, and the idea of the charity is to help the children first fight… — Nacho Figueras Copy Share Image
We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Books for children get into schools. Committed teachers use books like mine alongside films, non-fiction and fiction to help children investigate and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
We started watching 'Doctor Who' as a family because our first daughter was a cranky baby, and she would get up during… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If kids have the oportunity to come together to get to know one another, they can judge for themselves who they want… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a… — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
“Interviewing one of Uber’s earliest executives, who demonstrated the company’s route-finding algorithms with the unbridled enthusiasm of a small child at Christmas,… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different… — Katherine Heigl Copy Share Image
I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and I honestly started performing for my family when I was around three. I would jump… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
I miss being a child with you. All we had to worry about was what barbie doll to play with, not bratz,… — Rebekah Copy Share Image
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
Children trust and rely on Us to create their FOUNDATION, their Belief System. It will impact their every decisions into adulthood, into… — Rey Mellomida Copy Share Image
This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
“The Jews have a saying worth remembering: "Whoever doesn't teach his son some trade or business, teaches him to be a thief."… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“I will never get over being thankful to them; I hope that you never get over being thankful to them. I hope… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“We are not good to each other. Our tribalism is to an extremely narrow group of people: our children, our spouse, maybe… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I probably give 80% more to my children than my father gave to me and still it doesn't come up to scratch.… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
“The doctor gave him a look of sympathy. “We won’t have a choice. If left untreated, both mother and child could die.… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“It contained a sad, but too common story of the hard-heartedness of the wealthy, and the misery endured by the children of… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image