This is one of their [the Christians'] rules. Let no man that is learned, wise, or prudent come among us: but if… — Aulus Cornelius Celsus Copy Share Image
Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible,… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When I look at my childhood art, it's the same. It's animals dressed up as people in patterned clothing. It basically looked… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
“Dear Friends: As one who has experimented extensively with life in the home and community, using real people in true-life situations, I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I knew from very early on that I wanted kids. I wasn't one of those women who goes, 'Well, if it happens,… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I felt my country should do more for its children. Its children are not born gangsters. In fact, they have in them… — Azim Khamisa Copy Share Image
Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And as they spoke - lo and behold! - there was a knock at the door, and there stood a small, stout… — Christianna Brand Copy Share Image
“Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
“Dark, was banned by the Irish state censor for obscenity. The story was set, as so much of McGahern's later fiction would… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Father is my Defender (Hero). Mother is my Teacher. Sister is my Counselor. Wife is my Savior. Children are my Fighters. Then… — Sandeep Kumar Copy Share Image
Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Time for a new business model for the 21st century. For starters, retire that outdated and creepy clown. You can be a… — Michele Simon Copy Share Image
A childhood favourite that has stayed with me over the years is Kate Winslet. She's an amazing British actress who always delivers… — Georgina Campbell Copy Share Image
“Being a stay-at-home mom to one child, a baby, when you’re a mom of one is not really a full-time job,” she… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“What If God Is a Creep? What if God is a creep who wishes He was taller who didn't get the girl… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
To think, "I am a sinner, oh Father, save me," is a defective approach! You should say, "I am your son, I… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Copy Share Image
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
“A fixation on happiness inevitably amounts to a never-ending pursuit of “something else”—a new house, a new relationship, another child, another pay… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“See, I am very dependent... on beauty and peace of the world... on loyalty of friends... on love in families... on happiness… — Galina Nelson Copy Share Image
“She says that she held on to the memory as if it were a touchstone, something that could anchor her. She knows,… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
“It was your body…that danced at your first drum circle; it was your body that gave birth to your child; it was… — Dianne Sylvan Copy Share Image
“The right to life is the foundation of every other right, which makes intentionally killing an unborn child, or encouraging, enabling, or… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard… — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
“Indeed, analyst Robert Bak calls orgasm "the perfect promise between love and death," the means by which we repatriate separation of mother… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with the inlet: It is the outlet that is obstructed. The water of life does not spring forth because… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
“We have no way to quantify the damage done by telling tens of millions of children that masturbation will make them blind,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It was a fine fall morning in Paris, crisp and clear, and Benji was quite full of himself, cavorting near the fountain,… — Joe Camp Copy Share Image
If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think women often have problems with self-belief, which sounds a bit boring, but they do - and I think when women… — Nell Leyshon Copy Share Image