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“I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.”

Ifs Children Helping Home School Politics Wonder Break Program Tradition Chains Brown Bags Links Lunch Continuing Expanding Demise American Tradition School Lunch

Author:Charles Mathias

“I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.”

Believe Children Creation Tradition Single Child

Author:Elie Wiesel

“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

“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.”

“My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They thought it was important for children to be kept on a schedule. You went home for the holidays, you went to mass on Sunday - no ifs, ands, or buts. That was ingrained in me from a very young age, and I think that's informed who I am in so many aspects of my life. I crave stability and a schedule and the security that comes along with it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Children Important Home Age Young Found Parent Security Comfort Mass Aspect Tradition Who I Am Holiday Sunday Ritual Stability Schedules Crave Young Age Home For The Holidays

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.”

“I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.”

Giving Mind Children Young Moral Materials Grew Grew Up Tradition Our Children Raised Framework Enquiry Young Minds Jewish Tradition Jewish Family

Author:Michael Sandel

“As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable.”

People Believe Children Important Together Law Used Force Social Practice Female Tradition Foundation Discrimination Code Justify Elders Great Respect Mutilation Infanticide

Author:Mary Robinson