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“My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.”

Children Mother House Built Kitchen Focal Point

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.”

“Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.”

“No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.”

Children Stills Life Is Culture Compassion Moral Principles Teach Progress Conscience Built All Things Bottom Tales Idiot Meaningless Fragments Relativism Moral Principles Signifying

Author:Michael Novak

“I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those follow-up cases.”

Thinking Children Whole Cases Taken Built Welfare Agency Follow Up

Author:Kim Edwards

“Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.”

“As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. It was a natural next step to want to know how the universe works.”

Knows Want Children Wanted Universe Next Natural Numbers Steps Know How Models Built Complicated Next Steps

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.”

May Children Two Running House Strong Ten Built Stones Fairy Sheep Bricks Cherries Ponies Granite

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.”

Mind Humans Wells Children Human Beings Doubt Materials Adults Built Philosophical Constant Chaos Myth Tales Landscape Fairy Legends Construction Fairy Tale Shelter Components Siege

Author:Yi-Fu Tuan

“It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations.”

Trying Children Important Matter Christian Belief Mistake Moral Atheism Training Built Bases Foundation Positive Atheism Moral Education

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.”

Children Greater Models Built Slave Males Corporate Willingness Be A Slave

Author:Warren Farrell

“[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.”

Children Half Built Dust Housework

Author:Lois Gould

“School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.”

Should Children Able School Order Teach Study Teacher Plans Comfort Conversation Built Prison Convenient Merriment

Book:Tolstoy on Education

Source: Tolstoy on Education

“One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.”

Children Littles Political Force Generations Gun Built Female Labor Prison Fortune Slave Possession Dirty Immigrants Thug Militia Child Labor Old Money Scabs Slave Labor Dirty Money

Author:Michael Parenti

“The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.”

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.”

“Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.”

World May Children Made Hard Reason Seems Eye Pain Joy Stars Pleasure Behinds Sadness Birth Sorrow Sad Laughter Illusion Built Blind Mask Appetite Temperament Coarse Callous Birth Of A Child

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Country music has been empowering to women. Women invented it - it was women singing to their children that built country music. The people making country music today might not even know that it all started with a midwife. But it's true, it really did. That's where Michael learned to shake it the way he did. It wasn't from old Papa Jackson, I'll tell you that.”

People Knows Way Children Has Beens Country Might Today Singing Built Empowering Shakes Men Women Papa Midwife

Author:Ketch Secor

“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.”

Thinking Children Made Whole Moments Lasts Purpose Values Grows Growing Up Built Lilies Disdain

Book:Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2

Source: Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2

“God...should never have been expelled from America's schools. As we struggle to teach our children...we dare not forget that our civilization was built by men and women who placed their faith in a loving God. If Congress can begin each day with a moment of prayer...so then can our sons and daughters.”

“Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation”

Children Nations Rocks Built Our Children Assets Our Future

Author:Nelson Mandela

“My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.”

Children Wife Communication Built Our Children My Wife Open Communication

Author:Rick Springfield

“I think that parochialism is built into many kinds of nationalism and educational institutions in which children are brought up to treat their own culture as the unmarked case, and to mark the products of other culture.”

Thinking Kind Children Culture Cases Products Built Treats Mark Institutions Educational Nationalism Other Cultures Educational Institutions Parochialism

Author:Jay L. Garfield

“I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.”

“I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.”

Children Helping Passion Modern Built Slavery Village My Passion Modern Day Thailand Modern Day Slavery

Author:David Batstone

“Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.”

Humans Children Sometimes Stories Novel Happened Conditions Sitting Built Finals Curiosity Technique Clever Appeals Knees Human Condition Restriction Basic Things

Author:William Golding

“The private sector granted bursaries [scholarships] for the children of their workers. Some of them built homes for their workers. They had in-service training, which improved the skills of their workers. So that spirit was there. All we did was merely exploit it.”

Children Home Spirit Skills Training Built Workers Granted Exploits Scholarship Private Sector

Author:Nelson Mandela

“We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

“Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.”

“Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.”

Years Children Made Causes Women Ability Special Husband Creatures Built Loving Children

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.”

People World Should Children School Spirit Development Habit Lessons Built Mental Health Mere Shells Personal Love

Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons”

Children Courses Cities Paper Built Logic Fairy Construction San Francisco Pipe Cleaners Rubber Cement Crayon Happy Children

Book:A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard of living, were rightly proud to be able to provide for their children those things which they themselves had not had. And why their children, inevitably, took those things for granted. It meant that new values and new expectations had crept into our societies along with new standards of living. Hence the materialistic and often greedy and selfish lifestyle of so many young people in the Western world, especially in the United States.”

“Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony.”

“The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.”

Men Children Said Christian Mother Thousand Sitting Europe Built Roots Twenties Slave Jew Coast Jungle Rabbits Palaces Men Women Good God Unshakable Fixation Weasels Moors Renegades

Author:Dorothy Dunnett

“There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.”

World Looks Children Two Important Ideas Real Sides Lines Generations Rocks Wall Adults Built Mere Seven Boundaries Climbs Over It Gates Geometry Ambiguous

Book:The Dispossessed

Source: The Dispossessed

“People think I built the Pack, because I'm the guy who has the welfare of all shapeshifters in mind. They're wrong. Everything I built, I did so that when I mate and have children, nobody can touch my family. (...) I built all this so I can protect you.”

People Thinking Mind Children I Can Guy Protect Built My Family Welfare Mates Packs Protect You Shapeshifters

Author:Ilona Andrews

“No," she said firmly. "I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we built. I don't want you with me. You aren't done. You see too far ahead. You need to make the world in your thoughts a real one that our children can fly in." - Matalina to Jenks”

World Want Needs Children Said Real Done Home Break Built Tradition Our Children I Want You Me Alone Real Ones

Author:Kim Harrison

“You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was. . . Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Pete Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.”

“Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.”

“Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.”

Feels Children Home Jobs Individual Work Poor Poverty Built Empowering Loan Empowered Ending Poverty Disenfranchised

Author:Natalie Portman

“The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it has a force of its own. It is not a simple matter to relax; it is one of the most complex phenomena possible, because all that we are taught is tension, anxiety, anguish. Seriousness is the very core the society is built around. Playfulness is for small children, not for grown-up people. And I am teaching you to be children again, to be playful again. It is a quantum leap, a jump...but it takes time to understand.”

People Children Matter Force Simple Teaching Taught Anxiety Built Complexes Core Tension Relax Leap Take Time Quantum Anguish Seriousness Small Child It Takes Time Playfulness Quantum Leap

Author:Rajneesh

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