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“I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.”

Children School Passion Building Abiding Textbooks Very Deep

Author:Johann Lamont

“I certainly don't think it's inevitable that we don't love children who don't carry our own DNA. If that were true we wouldn't have millions of successful adoptions to consider. I do think that it's harder to love a child when you come into that child's life after the unrequited passion of infancy and early childhood has passed.”

Ifs Thinking Children Passion Millions Successful Childhood Harder Inevitable Adoption Dna Infancy Unrequited Children Love Early Childhood

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Children Kids Wanted Passion Fun Parent Acting Actresses Suits Making Money

Author:Alanna Ubach

“Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.”

Children Stories Eye Passion Parent Tears Revolution Listening Tales Pity Shakes Shameful American Revolution Boiling Glisten

Author:John Hancock

“There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.”

Thinking Knows Years Children Passion Hours Fronts Tvs Internet Sitting Pursue My Children Surfing Suspicious Surfing The Internet

Author:Amy Chua

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.”

Source: The Pilgrim's Progress & the Lives of Donne and Herbert

“Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even more important is the spiritual questioning that comes up around our middle years. We wonder what do I want to hand down to my children, and how do I want to spend my days on this earth? I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. And it helps give us the courage once we find passion to actually pursue that!”

“In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.”

World Giving Trying Children Age School Passion Secret Failing Childhood Giving Up Eight Drawing Nine Symbols Realistic Instruction Realism Symbolic Early Childhood

Author:Betty Edwards

“Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.”

Men Children Happens Passion Noble Great Men Offspring

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.”

Children Desire Passion Thousand Occasions Sparks Discharge Crackers

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater