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“I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.”

Children Age Young Force Parent Realizing Loses Natural Mercy Aging Heredity Parent Child

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.”

Giving Writing Kind Children Feelings Running Parent Chance Race Situation Novel Subjects Adults Mercy Response

Author:Nina Bawden

“Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.”

Source: America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else

“In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children.”

World Want Children Today Parent Roles Activity Adults Mercy Function Relation Pressure Guides Priorities Meaningful Companion Parenthood Today's World

Book:2 Wrlds Childhood

Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood

“Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.”

Thinking Men Mean Children Parent Justice Balance Battle Mercy Righteousness Scholar Righteous Biblical Genesis

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“Mercy Falls was all about rumors, and the rumor on Jack was that he got his short fuse from his dad. I didn't know about that. It seemed like you ought to pick the sort of person you would be, no matter what your parents were like.”

Knows Persons Matter Would Be Fall Parent Like You Ought Dad Picks Mercy No Matter What Rumor Fuse

Book:Shiver

Source: Shiver

“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”

Men Death Parent Mercy Murder Hypocrisy Hypocrite Orphan

Book:Speaking of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Speaking of Abraham Lincoln

“What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!”

Wells Parent Religious Prayer Baby Praying Worship Mercy Parenthood Infancy Puritan Clergymen Presbyterians Unborn Baby

Book:The Mystery of Providence

Source: The Mystery of Providence