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“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.”

Thinking World Children Past Worry Concepts Adults Our Time Engaging Submerged Worrying About The Past

Author:Chris Ware

“We can't change the past, but we can look to the future, and we can - we can hold ourselves accountable, to our - not just to our - our children but to all aspects of the - the world we interact with”

World Looks Children Past Aspect Our Children Can't Change Looking To The Future Can't Change The Past

Author:Rodney Erickson

“The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.”

Children States Facts Past Science Parent Evolution Future Doctrine

Book:The Outline of Science, First Volume

Source: The Outline of Science, First Volume

“Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.”

Children Book Dream Past Reading

Book:A Woman Talking

Source: A Woman Talking

“The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.”

Needs Children Past Teacher Teaching Objects Our Children Educate Our Past

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.”

Children Art Past Effort Principles Produce Tradition Works Of Art Revive

Book:Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984

Source: Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.”

May Children Past Hero Tasks Our Children Architect

Author:Jomo Kenyatta

“Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.”

Want Children Kids Past Parent Ideals Strive Approval Reversal

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.”

Feels Children Littles Moments Past Worried Ashamed Not Afraid Live In The Moment Afraid To Love

Author:Miguel

“I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.”

“There's something about the American spirit - inherent in the American spirit -- we don't hang on to the past. We always move forward.... We are going to leave something better for our children - not just here in the United States, but all around the world.”

World Children States Past Moving Spirit United United States Our Children Moving Forward Around The World Inherent Something Better American Spirit

Author:Barack Obama

“The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.”

Years Children Past Parent Middle Caught Children And Parents

Book:The Middle Ground

Source: The Middle Ground

“To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I've become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free”

Looks Children Past Behinds Sky Reflection Embrace Wings Scared Spread Goodbye Saying Goodbye Lotuses Unbreakable Leaving The Past Leave The Past Behind

Author:Christina Aguilera