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
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
“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
“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 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
“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
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
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All my childhood memories are from Lucknow. My entire maternal side lives here, so every vacation, we used to come here by… — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“All good children's stories are the same: young creature breaks rules, has incredible adventure, then returns home with the knowledge that aforementioned… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I want to have money so I can spend it having children. I want to have three or four and be a… — Daisy Lowe Copy Share Image
It concerns me when I see a small child watching the hero shoot the villain on television. It is teaching the small… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
I would get fit after having each of my children but it was always slightly tainted with guilt because I would feel… — Sara Cox 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's not so much that I ever declared: 'I will never have children.' I just never found the right man to settle… — Kiki Dee 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
When I worked in childcare, I could not afford to send my own children to the center where I worked. — Cori Bush 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
Sometimes, it's hard for parents to talk to their children. It's all about learning that there are other ways to communicate, like… — Tabitha Brown Copy Share Image
The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years,… — Vanessa Paradis Copy Share Image
“But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where… — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
“Like children facing an empty Christmas tree, they knew the world wasn’t a very magical place at all.” — Preston Walker Copy Share Image
