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“If you look at the state of California, the children who are not receiving the education that they should are both black and Latino children. And together they would represent a majority of progressive voters in the state of California. And the state is still very, very broken.”

Children Together Black Broken Progressive Latino

Author:Maria Echaveste

“There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with. If everybody did follow this device, and it was supposed to work, then I guess there would be no divorce, no children coming from broken homes and a lot fewer people in therapy. So ultimately society would be functioning at a much higher level. There would be advances.”

People Children Home Adventure Broken Divorce Therapy

Author:Emma Caulfield

“Being a figurehead for those with family members in prison is somewhat new for me. Something I've discovered since my father's incarceration is that the prison system is broken. My first-hand experiences have taught me that reform needs to happen sooner than later. I'm most interested in mentoring children with parents in prison. When a parent is sentenced to a jail term, the child is sentenced to the same time to be spent without a mother or father. No child should suffer a stigma or lack support and guidance because of the sins of a parent.”

Children Mother Suffering Father Parent Term Sin Support Broken Prison Guidance Stigma Mentoring Incarceration

Author:Kambri Crews

“He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.”

Children Moments Might Faces White Animal Cities Expression Broken Stones Silent Climbing Scream Towers Summit Repose Cracked Chained Climbing Up

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.”

Children Song Fire Broken Sorrow Wander Evening Curse Flood Old Woman Porch

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.”

“Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.”

Knows Needs Children Persons Self Joy Humanity Source Broken Weakness Negative Accepted Transformed

Book:Becoming Human

Source: Becoming Human

“I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.”

Children Spirit Risk Broken Tests Bones My Children Broken Bone Broken Spirit

Author:Rose Kennedy

“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.”

“Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.”

Source: Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley

“Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!”

Men World Inspirational Firsts Humans Heart Children Stills Kids Pain Suffering Human Beings Worst Broken Periods Morality Harm Rage Innocent Serving Relative Facility Broken Man

Author:William P. Young

“It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.”

Trying May Children Sky Broken Months Blue Clouds Warm Holes Sunshine Honey Bowls Dripping

Book:Little Bee: A Novel

Source: Little Bee: A Novel

“There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tiny bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.”

Source: Sula

“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”

“In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.”

Wells Children Doe Able Parent Broken

Author:William P. Young

“I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.”

Ifs World Should Heart May Children Littles Soul Self Body Suffering Asks Broken Praying Weak And Love Charity Unhappy Righteous Unfortunate Hideous Praying To God Self Righteous

Author:John Wyndham

“He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our resume but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.”

Children Important Love Is Broken Proud Holy Pure Infinite Filled Selfish Wicked Arrogant Awkward Rejected Flawed God's Love Resumes Indescribable Sorrowful

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.”

Ifs Should Looks Children Faces Mother Wonder Our Lives Broken Baby Mets Should Have Our Children I Realized Legion

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“Because I don’t feel broken when you look at me. (Acheron) How could you feel broken? (Tory) I was shattered as a child and thrown away, like a piece of trash no on wanted. But you don’t treat me like that. You see in me the human bit and you touch that part of me. You make me feel whole and wanted. (Acheron)”

Feels Humans Looks Children Whole Wanted Bits Pieces Broken Treats Thrown Look At Me Trash Shattered You Make Me Feel

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?”

Men Children Law Left White Wife Broken Beats Abuse My Wife Hungry Drunk My Children Native American White Man

Author:Sitting Bull

“Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a butterfly caught in amber, a cat's eye shell, a bolt of lightning forged from the heart of a falling star, and the flower of the rue plant, herb of grace. The queen gave each of her six children one of the charms as their lucky talisman, but ever since the chain of charms was broken, the gypsies had been dogged with misfortune.”

Source: The Gypsy Crown: Chain of Charms 1

“Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too. And I—I who have failed at everything and have failed everyone—I must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.”

Children Lying Waiting Dark Rooms Failing Broken Bed Window Staring Filthy Dark Room Wait For Me

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour.”

Source: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...

“Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can't name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all.”

Children I Can Sometimes Beautiful Names Water Broken Rivers Something Beautiful Wellspring Water Of Life

Author:Linda Hogan

“For the most profound experiences in our lives and in the world words are worth nothing. Can you describe love Or death Can you describe what it really feels like the first time you see your child Or the first time your heart gets broken You can try...but it won't come close to describing what it really was or what it really felt like.”

World Feels Trying Firsts Heart Children Felt Our Lives Broken First Time Profound Your Children Describing

Book:The Final Testament

Source: The Final Testament

“It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.”

Source: Summerland

“Yet here we are, two children and a broken promise later, standing before each other, just the way we stood that day at the alter, with equal parts love and hope. And once again, I close my eyes, ready to take a leap of faith, ready for the long, hard road ahead. I have no idea how it's going to turn out, but then again, I never really did.”

Way Children Long Two Ideas Hard Eye Turns Ready Broken Promise Equal Standing No Idea Leap Broken Promises Leap Of Faith Hope And Love

Author:Emily Giffin

“Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.”

Men Humans Heart Children Earth Voice Human Beings Broken Lows Draws Men And Women Angel Soldier Wounds Wheels Melancholy Physicians Wounded Wretched Being Broken Wounded Soldier

Author:Thornton Wilder

“Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.”

Children Enough Spirit Suffering Broken Needed Adults Notion Innocence Mature Wipe Joyous Broken Down

Book:Centaur Aisle

Source: Centaur Aisle

“In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.”

Men Looks Heart May Children Mother Hate Ignorance Broken Demon Hypocrisy Babe Presidential Election Pimp Jackals Hyenas

Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

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