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“..what is a child for? Is he to give me comfort? Is he for me to give comfort to? And if a child can o longer be comforted, is it my job to give him permission to leave?”

Book:A Little Life

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“A gift was what another person thought of you, and over the years he'd come to understand, by consensus, that his children saw him as someone who wore a tie to work, used power tools, played golf and drank scotch, which, while all true, seemed a superficial view of him. And yet when asked directly, he couldn't say what he wanted. Nothing.”

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Book:Henry, Himself

Source: Henry, Himself

“Beyond those mountains, there are lessons on how you can make progress. Each mountain climbed is a step taken and a lesson learned.”

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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

“Stekel quite rightly says: Children are not substitutes for one's disappointed love; they are not substitutes for one's thwarted ideal in life, children are not mere material to fill out an empty existence. Children are a responsibility and an opportunity. Children are the loftiest blossoms upon the tree of untrammelled love . . . They are neither playthings, nor tools for the fulfilment of parental needs or ungratified ambitions. Children are obligations; they should be brought up so as to become happy human beings.”

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Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“Remember is the name of all children. In that name is the seed and the thaw.”

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Book:Whiskey When We're Dry

Source: Whiskey When We're Dry

“We spend an inordinate amount of money of the federal budget on the machinery of war, and neglect our kids in the process, and it's not OK”

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Author:LeVar Burton

“It’s one thing to tell your children about God, but when they experience God in their life and witness faith in action, it’s the most life-changing experience available.”

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Book:The New Vintage Family: A Vintage Look for the Modern-Day Family

Source: The New Vintage Family: A Vintage Look for the Modern-Day Family

“Nicknamed Wind because no one ever saw him coming, this huge, unsightly dog terrorized everyone. If it weren’t for the twenty-foot chain that kept him anchored to a metal post, there wouldn’t be any children left.”

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Author:C.R. Stewart

“It took a year for us to conceive our second child. This is a common ordeal for the average middle-class American couple that puts off having children until their thirties. We knew so many other couples that had experienced fertility problems and miscarriages that it was more surprising when someone we knew had a child without being consigned to thirty-eight consecutive weeks of bed rest. Turns out God WANTS you to conceive when you’re eighteen years old, apparently so that you can spend your twenties miserable and penniless and living in a camper.”

Children Humor Parenting

Book:Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood

Source: Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood

“Authority is like a Uniform while power is the gun. You need power to enforce authority just like a policeman on the highway, he is authorized by the law but without gun, even children can make a mockery of him.”

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Book:Great Reflections on Success

Source: Great Reflections on Success

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