“Late in the evening, tired and happy and miles from home, they drew up on a remote common far from habitations, turned the horse loose to graze, and ate their simple supper sitting on the grass by the side of the cart. . . . [The] stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company. . . .”
Source: The wind in the willows
“One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.”
Source: The Snowy Day
“The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.”
Source: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”
Source: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.”
Source: Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
“Hỡi ôi! Khi người ta mười bảy tuổi ai cũng mộng, nhưng chẳng một mộng nào thành sự thực bao giờ? Cuộc sống phũ phàng. Đời thì buồn mà kiếp người thì khổ lắm rồi. Sao họ còn muốn gây buồn, gây khổ cho nhau nữa?”
Source: Gánh hàng hoa
“Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.”
Source: A Lion Among Men
“It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.”
Source: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
“If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.”
Source: Journal of Discourses, Volume 9
“The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.”
Source: The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children