But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I think the need for reading boils down to one simple issue: children are selfish. Reading about other people creates a sense… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“No one loves his children as much as a nomad. A wanderer admittedly does not really choose to bring children into his… — Ibrahim al-Koni Copy Share Image
“True, it was customary in Schongau that the hangman could spare the offender if he married her. But Johannes Kuisl had a… — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“While parents are too occupied with teaching their children math and science, they totally neglect the importance of imagination which can take… — John Taskinsoy Copy Share Image
My concept is not bigger than Weather Report. I am Weather Report. It comes through me; I do not create nothing. It… — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
“It's the Estella principle. If you take a child and teach it to hate and fear something from before it can understand… — Daniel O'Malley Copy Share Image
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You can make a child believe a lot of things. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny... just about anything really,… — Samantha Sotto Copy Share Image
I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my… — Gail Devers Copy Share Image
I hope they remember the good stuff, when I was a baby, a toddler, when they still had hopes and dreams for… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
“Most of us are very sensitive about our roles as mothers. If the misogynist feels his partner is betraying him for the… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“After all that men have done to the women and children and every other defenseless thing on this planet, it is time… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
We are literally in the heart of Jesus," he said. "I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally… — John Green Copy Share Image
Elder Jeffery R. Holland: “So we have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up and the truth to… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Every time I see a child walking down the street I like to trip them. While they look for their missing teeth,… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun… — Janet Robertson Copy Share Image
I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
Dont you know Imma villian ? Every night Im out killin … Sendin everyone runnin likee children... I know you why youree… — Haylee Copy Share Image
“Many of those who accuse the Christian God of being a “genocidal god” because of the Flood, support the genocidal killing of… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back… — Ann Bancroft Copy Share Image
I loved the Sunday funnies, and then, as I got a little bit older, I think my dad recognized that it was… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential… — Tim Murphy Copy Share Image
Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can’t reach, the parts that connect the child to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying… — John Holt Copy Share Image
Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't believe in making five-year plans. I don't want to say, "Yes, I want to have children in the next five… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image