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“If you find yourself engulfed in sadness in the valleys, ascend the mountains. The panoramic views from the top will offer a fresh perspective and change how you feel.”

Book:Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World

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“There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is—the willful ejection of Molly from our nest. It’s too late for second thoughts, anyway. She has to be moved into her dorm in time for freshman orientation. It’s been marked on the kitchen calendar for weeks—the expiration date on her childhood.”

Children Parenting

Book:The Goodbye Quilt

Source: The Goodbye Quilt

“Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeply Must take great care they do not, Paddle too deeply.' Thus spake the awful aging couple Whose heart the years had turned to rubble. But the little children, to save any bother, Let it in at one ear and out at the other.”

Children Advice Advice To Young Children

Book:Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

Source: Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

“My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.”

Children Parenting Adoption

Book:Reflections on Motherhood

Source: Reflections on Motherhood

“The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.”

Life Children Parenthood

Book:Rabbit, Run

Source: Rabbit, Run

“If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.”

Children Humorous Incorrigible

Author:Don Marquis

“Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don't need a political movement for children... [we need to] build environments and policies for our collective future.”

Children Politics Movement Youth

Author:Sandra Meucci

“Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home?" when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm. This time there could be no mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it any further. | So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. "If it had grown up," she said to herself, "it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes a rather handsome pig, I think." And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, "if one only knew the right way to change them--" when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.”

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Book:Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“If you have many mountains to climb, you have no business chasing after clowns. Focus on something serious, not on the distractions of life.”

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Book:Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World

Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World

“Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.”

Children Authority Parents Vocabulary Erudition John Milton

Book:John Milton: Introductions

Source: John Milton: Introductions

“Soeur Marie Emelie" Soeur Marie Emelie is little and very old: her eyes are onyx, and her cheeks vermilion, her apron wide and kind and cobalt blue. She comforts generations and generations of children, who are "new" at the convent school. When they are eight, they are already up to her shoulder, they grow up and go into the world, she remains, forever, always incredibly old, but incredibly never older... She has an affinity with the hens, When a hen dies,she sits down on a bench and cries, she is the only grown-up, whose tears are not frightening tears. Children can weep without shame, at her side... Soeur Marie Emelie... her apron as wide and kind as skies on a summer day and as clean and blue.”

Children Comforting Catholic Author

Book:Flowering Tree

Source: Flowering Tree

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