“The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.” WantWellsChildrenWould BeRunningKidsSchoolLastsMiddleDadFinishedHeyMy ChildrenUpsetWeekendPacksEmbarrassedFifthYour Dad Author:Dan Wheldon
“When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.” ChildrenIdeasEnoughStoriesParentForgottenRadicalUpsetRejectedGrappling Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and claim their stomach is upset the next morning. Does anyone fail to see that the world is an unjust judge, gracious and well disposed to its own children but harsh and rigorous towards the children of God?” PeopleIfsWorldWellsChildrenDoeNightNextWatchesMorningFailingJudgingClaimsCatholicDancingComplainingUpsetThirtyStomachHarshUnjustGraciousChild Of God Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“When I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real, I wasn't upset; rather, I was relieved that there was a much simpler phenomenon to explain how so many children all over the world got presents on the same night! The story had been getting pretty complicated -- it was getting out of hand.” WorldChildrenRealStoriesHandsNightFoundComplicatedUpsetPhenomenonSantaRelievedSanta Claus Book:What Do You Care What Other People Think? Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?
“I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that.” PeopleThinkingYearsChildrenUseProblemBigsRealizingNaturalClassMiddleResourcesIndiaUpsetMiddle ClassNatural ResourcesBig FamiliesTanzania Author:Jane Goodall
“When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman... Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.” MenTryingChildrenHomeGivenCareersGoneFemaleEmptyUpsetRetirementRetiringGiven UpNestsEmpty Nest Author:Warren Farrell