I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't have formal training at all, but I did grow up around design. My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult… — Lisa Snowdon Copy Share Image
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been… — George Will Copy Share Image
Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than… — Bob Keeshan Copy Share Image
They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Listen to your father in your head when you don't know what to do as a parent. — Jill Zarin Copy Share Image
What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Because my parents had given me tremendous respect, trust, and freedom as a child, I knew how to take responsibility for myself.… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible,… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching 'Candid Camera,'… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
I've been acting since I was ten years old. I had two lines in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is… — Lance Bass Copy Share Image
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you… — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
I was never a warring parent who prejudiced the child against the other parent. We are a family wherein everyone cares for… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
