Nancy Gibbs

“It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.”

“In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing...”

“Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed b...”

“What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.”

“There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.”

“It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.”

“'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.”

“Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.”

“Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dy...”

“A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk...”

“Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and...”

“Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.”

“Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there...”

“When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.”

“The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while...”

“As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.”

“Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health a...”

“I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day...”

“I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying...”

“The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.”