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“It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.”

People Children Use Spirit Spirituality Easy Forget Magic Mystery Equal Stores Bedroom

Book:The Onion Girl

Source: The Onion Girl

“Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.”

Needs Children Book School Library Stores Access Public Library School Library

Author:Katherine Paterson

“The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.”

Children Important Cities Stores Neighborhood

Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Department store Santas are apparently being trained to lower children's expectations about toys because of the recession. Yeah, it's weird when you ask Santa for a train set and he's like, 'Yeah, how 'bout a bus token?”

Children Asks Expectations Yeah Train Stores Department Bus Toys Santa Recessions Tokens Department Stores

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.”

Children God Eye Mother Values Sake Stores His Eyes Treasury Relics

Author:Francois Fenelon

“In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from the mom-and-pop store (or mom-and-pop farm), with its integration of child care and work, to children-at-home and dad-at-work; to the mom-plus-daddy working at home, with its integration of childcare and work again. From mom-and-pop back to mom-and-pop.”

Children Home Care Parent Gone Mom Dad Areas Pops Stores Circles Plus Farms Integration Daddy Child Care Full Circle Childcare

Book:Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

“Eternity.Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet which contradict'st All sense, all reasoning,thou, who never wast Less than thyself, and who still art thyself Entire, though the deep draught which Time has taken Equals thy present storeNo line can reach To thy unfathomed depths. The reasoning sage Who can dissect a sunbeam, count the stars, And measure distant worlds, is here a child, And, humbled, drops his calculating pen.”

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes