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“This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of classic favorites fondly recalled from our own childhoods.”

Book Ideas Kids Childhood Tradition Regard Classic Chasing This Is A Book Vermeer

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.”

Seems Lasts Impossible Childhood Training Tradition Errors Recollection Woven

Author:Brigham Young

“We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.”

Soul Moving Grows Space Childhood Weakness Tradition Shame Instinct Terror Success And Failure Stale Hysterical

Book:Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)

Source: Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)

“There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.”

“Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean, of course, that we should dismiss it as artificial or insincere. All aristocracies have a strong military tradition, and for many British patricians the protracted warfare of the period was a godsend. It gave them a job, and, more important, a purpose, an opportunity to carry out what they had been trained to do since childhood: ride horses, fire guns, exercise their undoubted physical courage and tell other people what to do.”

“At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.”

Sea Childhood Tradition Cooking Storm Aesthetics

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration.”

Inspiration Memories Heard Childhood Example Band Tradition Performances Excellence Charity Males British Variety Royal Choir Brass Happy Memories Brass Bands British Music

Author:Michael Parkinson

“I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.”

I Can Teaching Childhood Tradition Backgrounds Experts Broads Scholarly Jewish Tradition

Author:Michael Sandel

“We [me and my husban] like to honor both of our family traditions whenever possible . We show the girls lots of pictures and tell a lot of stories about both of our childhoods. We also try to teach them both Portuguese and Serbian, though English is their primary language.”

Trying Stories Shows Girl Language Teach Childhood Honor Tradition Our Children Primaries Our Family Portuguese Family Tradition

Author:Adriana Lima

“Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?”

Trying Stories Mother Justice Poverty Growing Childhood Diversity Tradition Social Justice Chinese Insanity Peculiar

Book:Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

Source: Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston