“Hence [through No Child Left Behind] the state has been given power...to fire all teachers and principles. So here we have an… — James M. Lang Copy Share Image
My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50 children born… — George Carey Copy Share Image
You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
“I told her one of the few stories that she'd told me of myself as a child. We'd gone to a park… — Jessica Soffer Copy Share Image
Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“On that day, in jungle hamlets and mountain villages, in cacophonous slums and sprawling refugee camps, on worn concrete floors and under… — Adam Fifield Copy Share Image
For me, it's important to instil in my children that they can do whatever they like, that no matter what their religion… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
“Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Most of the parents in India, especially in smaller towns, fear for daughters due to the inhuman treatment meted out to them.… — Aditi Rao Hydari Copy Share Image
“I thought that teaching twenty-eight energetic and needy children how to read had to be the hardest job on earth. I was… — Jani Ortlund Copy Share Image
I have moved on and I am in a good place. My relationship with Tiger is centered around our children and we… — Elin Nordegren Copy Share Image
My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building,… — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
“She shifted the light to the next section. “Huh. He was brought to Lyle House by a children’s services agency. No mention… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
My interests lie in nurturing children. That's part of the reason why the bullying thing has become an aspect of my life.… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
“Children don’t read ‘genres’; they read stories. Below a certain age, they don’t distinguish between ‘true’ and ‘not true,’ because they see… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
My daughter is 8 years old, and just recently she came to me and said a girl called her fat. And I… — Denise Bidot Copy Share Image
“They lived happily ever after. It said so. In the book. They were the last words on the page. Happily ever after.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature,… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears… — John W Holt Jr Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
“When Kaya looked up again, she spotted a little girl across the street in front of her car. She was carrying a… — Prachi Bhaumik Copy Share Image
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a… — Ronald Sydney Nyholm Copy Share Image
They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Fix the Family, a conservative, Catholic “family values” organization, published a list of reasons why families should not send their daughters to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“If you walk a city, if you love a city, if you put in your miles and years with open heart and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Attaching the word marriage to the association of same-sex individuals mistakenly presumes that marriage is principally a matter of adult benefits and… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Luke and I used to walk together, sometimes, along these streets. We used to talk about buying a house like one of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Women are looking out for other women and their children. There are some great nannies, and there are some horrible nannies. And… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
“The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, and Roger said… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“the sage Lenny Millstein, who not only was an excellent basketball man but an excellent person as well, who knew how to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I support DACA, which prevents the deportation of undocumented immigrants who came to America as children. Congress should cement this program into… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image