My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I went home and they seemed... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
We want the world to focus on children whose lives have been devastated by AIDS. The millions of children who are missing… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
I didn't know who I was and I didn't know if what was in me was any good. But my parents taught… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I think people are born bisexual, and it's just that our parents and society kind of veer us off into this feeling… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more… — Sandra Dodd Copy Share Image
Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
My parents explained: "You can either have a big Christmas and birthday present or we'll go abroad." We'd say: "Let's go abroad!"… — Nicki Chapman Copy Share Image
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog. — John Grogan Copy Share Image
Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
I think my parents were worried when I said I wanted to be an actress, but they also understood what that feeling… — Ruby Bentall Copy Share Image
