Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“I think birthdays should be less about celebrating the birth of the child and more about celebrating the fact that we succeeded… — Jill Smokler Copy Share Image
“And when It woke It would call them back, yes, back, because fear was fertile, its child was rage, and rage cried… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Your child's not looking at you and going, 'Mmm, I love a clavicle. Let me nestle into that.' — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I definitely people-watch. I often see photos of myself with my children: I'm always in the background with my mouth wide open,… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
The father who loves his children will not substitute toys for time, replace commendation with condemnation but will be their teacher not… — R Robert Flatt Copy Share Image
I've done a few jobs where there's a daughter, there's often a father who's positive and then there's a quite negative mother.… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
Stop looking from the outside,start noticing by Looking at how she cares after her children,her softness in the eye,her willing to sacrifice… — Jess N Copy Share Image
As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning… — Jeannette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The Childhood of a Leader’, written in 1938, Sartre examined a character, Lucien, who shores up an identity for himself as an… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful… — Roy Clark Copy Share Image
“Looking around, I wondered why Halliday, who always claimed to have had a miserable childhood, had later become so nostalgic for it.… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore corsets, men wore coats, children wore shoes.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
Welfare became a term of opprobrium - a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict in which liberals and conservatives clashed and… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
“People asked if I was his daughter. They ask all the time. Hoping, accusing. We never say yes, and we never say… — Kirsteen Reed Copy Share Image
It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to… — Cam Gigandet Copy Share Image
As a child, I played on the road against bigger players. Due to my technical skills, I've always got by. — Jerome Boateng Copy Share Image
“Like many children I had an intense dream life. Dreams were an amazing theater of the mind featuring both glorious adventures and… — Robert Waggoner Copy Share Image
I spend most of my time at home dancing with my daughter to things like 'Frozen' and 'The Greatest Showman.' — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Many benefit cuts hit single parents hardest and punish children by forcing their families into destitution. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Children have rights outside their mother's womb without having to be victim's of Domestic Violence inside their mother's womb.” — Sheree' Gay Copy Share Image
Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as… — Joe Cornish Copy Share Image
The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Kids who don't have a chance to do things in life are always kind of pushed aside, and left behind. — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
They want everything to be better for their children. I think athletes are starting to see that and that's why they're starting… — Andrew Hawkins Copy Share Image
Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or… — Tim Johnson Copy Share Image
“I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound… — Linda Medley Copy Share Image
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“But love, child, love is the root of all that is good, and the root of all things that are evil.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image