The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for… — Grace Abbott Copy Share Image
“Am I suggesting that we no longer try to achieve our goals? Absolutely not. It is not accomplishment that is the problem.… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
When I taught school, we just had the school cafeteria; we didn't have machines or things for children to buy food from.… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“A common misconception of education comes when the definition of education narrows to the intellectual. The child is compartmentalized. He is not… — Kevin Swanson Copy Share Image
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Natalie was a light so bright - I could never have expected what happened. I'll never get over it. I need to… — Lindsay Hoyle Copy Share Image
I am in the valley of prayer on the issue of gay marriage, and I will err on the side of inclusiveness… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh... And then in due course, he wanted… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with.… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs,… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At… — Susan Denning Copy Share Image
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm,… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So,… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
“Carlin died in 2008, but his daughter, the comedian and radio host Kelly Carlin,16 feels the vuja de way of looking at… — Warren Berger Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In fact I spent a lot of time in my childhood trying to figure out what other people wanted of me. That… — Sofia Helin Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe I write horror as a means to conquer fear, no. As for my childhood fears, I mostly feared real… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
“Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
It is not easy to love your enemies; but remember, as we all are children of God, it is like we all… — WILLIAMSJI MAVELI Copy Share Image
Having children changes your behavior. Your personality doesn't change, but you're more cautious of what you say and how you say it… — Vanessa Paradis Copy Share Image
“She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after… — Anne Cassidy Copy Share Image
A miracle is a single mom who works two jobs to care for her kids and still helps them with their homework… — Cathie Linz Copy Share Image
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The child exasperated Marianne with her endless obsession with possession. She seemed to have absorbed the national sense of aggrievement, as if… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“[Queer theory is] the bastard child of the gay and lesbian movement and postmodern literary theory, which like other unwed mothers has… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect,… — Zoe Weil Copy Share Image
There have definitely been ebbs and flows in my career, but, you know, part of the reason is that I'm a mom.… — Sandrine Holt Copy Share Image
Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You know, you take a little infant and you turn on the music mobile on their crib and you find that if… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
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