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“Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end”

Ifs Knows Children Ends Happened Window Our Children Things Happen Checks Your Children Deviation

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.”

Mind Heart Children Hard Rooms Break Laughing Window Our Children Wide Your Children Flood Oxygen

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.”

Heart Children Long Play Feelings Care My Own Sadness My Heart Flow Window Dear Warm Far Away Long Ago Frozen Solemn Back Again Gladness Dear Friend Thawing

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“In the window, I fantasize... about providing grown-ups and children alike with the greatest gift of all: insight.”

Children Window Insight Providing Greatest Gifts

Author:David Rakoff

“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

“I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent's footsteps.”