There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child.… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
Many kids are simply looking for some kind of acceptance. They're looking for someone to 'bring them in.' — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“The time you spend together doing a thousand inconsequential things is what culminates in a meaningful childhood.” — Stacie Cockrell Copy Share Image
What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious,… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits,… — Suharto Copy Share Image
So many things that you can ask children hopefully pique their interest and they can design and think for themselves. Having children… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“A child's body is so much a part of who they are; maybe because we can hold a little boy in our… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical,… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“But I'm worse. I'm a child playing dress-up, who can't even recognize herself under her own costume.” — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
That's been my goal since I was a child and saw the Spice Girls on TV: I was like, I want to… — Saara Aalto Copy Share Image
I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“My body, I give for your comfort. My life, I swear for your children. My heart, I gift to you alone.” She” — Jo Noelle Copy Share Image
“He was goin' on four and he used to eat fireflies. I don't know. I think he thought they'd make him glow.” — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
We tell children their wellbeing is paramount, but we are also guilty of mollycoddling them. There's a constant emphasis on their vulnerability,… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Cooking with my daughter is a treasured part of my life, as I don't get to spend as much time with her… — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
Love your children more than money because you can laugh happily with them, but not with money. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
“The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night.” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“ALL FAMILIES INVENT THEIR PARENTS AND CHILDREN, GIVE each of them a story, character, fate, and even a language.” — Edward Said Copy Share Image
A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I am absolutely over the moon. The baby's due next June. But I haven't found out the sex of the child and… — Angela Griffin Copy Share Image
The miracle was that he had been allowed to do a miracle. And ever, says Mallory, Sir Lancelot wept, as he had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
2 things to be learn from a child.. (1) To be happy for no reason. (2) To be always busy doing something.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
