All the Americans in the study were native born, but the height of the mother does affect the growth potential of the… — Richard H. Steckel Copy Share Image
“Now we will begin the dance. Remember, child, this is not the iron dance of Westeros we are learning, the knight's dance,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
My greatest wish is that my children will always know just how much I love them and for the rest of their… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“The satisfaction earned by the striving can be whatever furnishes the strongest incentive to the child, for example, extra pleasures or possessions… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“One of the ridiculously difficult things about raising children is that they are constantly developing and changing so that just when you… — Amy E. Spiegel Copy Share Image
My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
“Does having three other children lessen your pain over the one who is lost? Not lessen the pain, no. But it keeps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I realized that my mother had not taught us the tribal language because she knew her children would not be strong enough… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“My words to Anna, as we stood contemplating the Scuola Grande di San Marco, moments before entering Venice Hospital, came true: 'With… — Diogo Mainardi Copy Share Image
I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If I had all the treasure in the world, I would follow my dreams, play with my children, and spend time with… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city-here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a mum I'm very vulnerable to anything where children are upset or having a rotten time of it. There are news… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
We must let the world know children’s stories and we must take effective protective, legal and political actions to ensure that as… — Radhika Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
“Let us admit that some government programs and personnel are efficient and effective, and others are not. Let us acknowledge that when… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
We must remember to teach our children that even if others fail to be kind and considerate, we ought to be slow… — Theodore M. Burton Copy Share Image
Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“As the sole surviving child of that family, I find myself left with certain difficulties in the area of speech and language,… — Joanne Limburg Copy Share Image
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“she said, her children should not live on trash, her children had to fight for their livings, having such a silly, puffed-up… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“When children feel comfortable asking for help, they know they matter. They see that others care and want to be there for… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
