To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of… — Sol Stern Copy Share Image
“What cannot be seen: our crumpled childhoods, our scarred wrists, how we hated our bodies, how hard we tried, your needle marks?… — Brigid Lowry Copy Share Image
“You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information was control.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Children are not meant to work for love. They are meant to rest in someone’s care so that they can play and… — Deborah MacNamara Copy Share Image
The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious. — Vince Poscente Copy Share Image
Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I think it's really good to get early work experience. I'm not sure if it will happen with my children, but for… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
“the two of them are pursuing a new trajectory begun only a few hours before, that they are no longer living in… — Maylis de Kerangal Copy Share Image
Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi,… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer… — Jaclyn Smith Copy Share Image
“On New Year's Eve, when the children had gone up the hill to be with their father, I went to a Mensa… — Ann Shulgin Copy Share Image
In life and in sports we know that nothing lasts forever. The same year the greatest physical gift (football) the Lord gave… — Peyton Manning Copy Share Image
I think that the early feminism at least overlooked the fact that partnership and children can provide happiness. It isn't the only… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that?” — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Reform Jews are the children of Conservative Jews, or as they are sometimes known, Christians with curlier hair. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Food is first for nourishment, not just for taste or appearance, and this is an important thing to teach children.” — Katie Wells Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My number one priority is the safety of our communities, and particularly the safety of our children. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
“Maura had decided sometime before Blue’s birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I really have a heart for children who suffer from cancer. I can't imagine having to go through that at such a… — Michael Chandler Copy Share Image
“He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It's important for a child to be raised in a situation… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
“For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless… — Stuart Duncan Copy Share Image
When I look in my kids eye, Shorty say food to buy a cry, me cry Bank book empty Pocket dry. — Vybz Kartel Copy Share Image
Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s. — Delia Ephron Copy Share Image
“Remember that human wisdom is madness in the eyes of God. But if we listen to the child who lives in our… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
“She knew Buck was as concerned about the children as she was, and loved him all the more for it.” — Charlene Raddon Copy Share Image
“It’s entirely on our children to build their best futures. Not on us, parents. And we should be imprinting this message on… — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
