My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
VIDEO ARCHIVE- INTERVIEW 24768 . GOLD-EYE I like trees… grass… only birds in sky. People walking safe. Family No Creatures. Sleep all… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“I know nothing about education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I'd describe my inner life as constantly vigilant, always ready to flee or respond with violence. I've felt this way since I… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart,… — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
“I spent my childhood and youth on the outskirts of the Alps, in a region that was largely spared the immediate effects… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Often when I go to home of people who have small children, the children will run from me, even though they have… — Andre The Giant Copy Share Image
My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Children in the New Guinea highlands have the swollen bellies characteristic of a high-bulk but protein-deficient diet. New Guineans old and young… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
The biggest and most important part of our childhood was making movies. Our whole drive in life was to do this for… — Ross Duffer Copy Share Image
I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“Time can do all sorts of things. It’s almost like a magician. It can turn autumn into spring and babies into children,… — Alex Shearer Copy Share Image
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“One of the (uncontemplated) pleasures of childhood and adolescence was how rigorously we exchanged comics and books with our buddies. As adults… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'. And shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“Where do I come from? We are the children of the Great Explosion of Love that begot the whole Universe. We bear… — Ivan Figueroa-Otero Copy Share Image
“The choices you have for your children are not the same as mine. For me, there is no such thing as a… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“It is not Beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor mermaid's yellow… — George Darley Copy Share Image
O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For… — William Watson Copy Share Image
And besides . . . I don’t want to leave you. Er, you guys.” He smiled, and it lit up his whole… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“You aren’t really going to let me go, are you?” The man asked resignedly. Shaking his head, the boy replied, “No. You… — Cedric Nye Copy Share Image
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I really do fervently believe that every child deserves to have the kind of access to educational opportunities, broadly defined, including music… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“There was such emotion in his eyes now, she felt as though her insides were pressing on her ribcage and twisting in… — Katharine Ashe Copy Share Image
If you look at great reform, it always starts from parents. If you look at the movement to reform the special education… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
“When people are kids their parents teach them all sorts of stuff, some of it true and useful, some of it absurd… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
When I read the pilot for Married with Children, it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of… — Ed O'Neill Copy Share Image
I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
