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“With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.”

Want Writing Children Hands Able School Parent Study Special Demand Tests Ears My Children Shakes Statistics Contracts Public School Accounting Calculus Preps Special Education

Author:Amity Shlaes

“The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.”

Men Mean Children Able Poverty Birth Disease Ill Shakes Diseased Hereditary

Book:Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

Source: Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

“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

“Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.”

Knows Trying Children Order Father Influence Sorrow Roots Shame Work Out Superiors Satan Shakes Disadvantages Having Hope Damnation Scruples

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.”

Children War Eye Laughing Saws Blood Glory Shakes Cheeks Mud Cracked Glee

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

“We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.”

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith