“Suddenly, unexpectedly, someone is using the ugly powers of war, which horrify me, to try to pull and drag me away from… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
“Do you think me horselike, my lord?" Realizing the threat to his personage, Blackmoor wiped the smile from his face and replied,… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Education is supposed to be our great equalizer, but when only half of low-income students are enrolling in college and only three… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself.… — Angela Bowie Copy Share Image
“Where population is balanced and abundant, much child- bearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing of state; where violence comes but… — H.G.Wells Copy Share Image
As I look at my own precious children, I feel, like Joseph, that I have been entrusted with a great treasure. Recognizing… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position,… — Barbara Jane Reyes Copy Share Image
“You must all swear to me that you will protect my sister and her child. If Helen and her line of daughters… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“He was perfectly capable of looking after himself, although after his marriage he had lost the knack for it. He missed the… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses… That proves something - that a gang of wild animals… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, you will discover which kind of father you are, and at that moment you will, with perfect horror, recognize… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future.… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could… — Diana DeGette Copy Share Image
Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly… — Judith Viorst 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
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
If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales.… — Lee Unkrich 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
This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Confession: Having kids did not fix me. I was not somehow more whole, less botched-up, or more certain just because I had… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Comparing children of a 45-year-old dad to those of a 24-year-old father it indicated: autism was more than three times as likely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“As a child of civil war, I disbelieve in structured learning—actually I believe that one can be an intellectual without being a… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well,… — Leona Lewis Copy Share Image
Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone,… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
