“Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“And then one day, one of my daughters sat me down and told me that even though he was gone, I wasn’t.… — Brenda Rothert Copy Share Image
Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
“The bond between a mother and a child weighed nothing on a scale; it took up no room in a test tube.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“That breaks Ousep’s heart. To imagine the eternal boredom of his child. He wishes here to be no eternity, he wishes that… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
I was the youngest child and the only son. I was expected to shine in academics. It seemed like too big a… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I want to ask parents, when daughters turn 11 or 14, they keep a tab on their movements. Have these parents ever… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
No one likes kids. We say we do, and we take pictures of pregnant women for People Magazine, but really they're commodities… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
I married the right guy later in life. Roger Robinson is just so wonderful but I was 40 and by that time… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
“I feel like a parent whose children prefer to stay inside and watch TV. The father pleads, "It's a beautiful day. Why… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd… — George Mason Copy Share Image
When I was a player, I would always go out of my way to make my older daughter's lunches before I left… — Mark Schlereth Copy Share Image
If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren. — David Dewhurst Copy Share Image
“The child is mine and Petra's. It's especially important to us because it's the first we know of that definitely does not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's… — Stefanie Powers Copy Share Image
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances… — Candace Cameron Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I never had a childhood. I started working when I was 7 years old. I got $1 a day getting water for… — Chi Chi Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
“Small children are capable of great love. Love that overwhelms. Love that changes small worlds completely. Dangerous feelings that blot out everything.” — Missy Anne Copy Share Image
Since I was a child, I was always wondering why people were living in such conditions while enormous lands were empty. — Jovenel Moise Copy Share Image
A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school,… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course,… — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
“How silly, my dear; don't you know that if I came here as a child, then most of me never left?” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, and politicians. All three need supervision.” — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality… — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
As a child I could lie in bed and do absolutely nothing for hours but once I decided to do something, big… — Freddie Ljungberg Copy Share Image
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