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“We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.”

Way Wells Kind May Book Certain Left Parent Liberty Grew Grew Up Accounts Seeking Impression Atmosphere Related Lasting Lasting Impressions

Book:Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

“Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.”

World May Children Different Girl Parent Levels Boys Teacher Periods Classroom Domain Different Worlds Different Levels Outspoken Like A Boy

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.”

May Children Lasts Young Parent Decision Support Week Policy Immigration Enthusiasm Immigrants Voters Hispanic Immigration Policy

Author:Mara Liasson

“I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.”

People Thinking Writing May Song Parent Sad Song

Author:Shelby Lynne

“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.”

“Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It's above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It's our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is.”

“The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.”

Ifs May Children Character Parent Poetic

Book:Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

“O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.”

Thinking Men Feels May Children Home Eye Parent Wife Bravery Ashamed Scorn Absent Be A Man

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794)”

May Said Language Parent Animal Evolution Habit Productions Branches Imperfection Strict Offspring Owing

Book:Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...

Source: Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...

“Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”

Ifs Want Wells May Children Done Parent Share Position Duty Things Done Do It Yourself

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.”

Trying Kind May Self Parent Again And Again Negativity Try Again Posture Self Forgiveness

Author:Sark

“The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dews in one summer, that will not cause as much remark as one hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that announce the indignation of God than by those that announce His affection.”

May Children Night Causes Parent Hours Half Summer Bible Letters Affection Warm Gentle Fifty Passages Sixty Remarks Dew Indignation Hailstorms

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.”

Men Mind May Shows Form Speak Language Parent Speech Spring Glasses Thee Retired

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.”

“When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the stage, but, when they're on the page, people can really get into them. My first two books were aiming to be funnier, but the third was more about deep exploration. Things about being a parent and growing older that I thought would be perfect for a book.”

People Writing Firsts Wells May Two Book Would Be Certain Process Parent Perfect Growing Stage Pages Thirds Exploration Translate Growing Old Being A Parent Growing Older

Author:Paul Reiser

“Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.”

World May Children Ends Young Purpose Humanity Parent Views Generations Subjects Instruments Realization Educate Promotion

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.”

“Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.”

May Different States Kids Today Young House Parent United Talking United States Generations Clubs Neighbor Joining Porch Jogging Physical Fitness

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.”

Should May Children Jobs Parent Doctors

Author:William J. Clinton

“Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.”

People Thinking Mind Kind May Children Stills Ideas Past Turns Parent Generations Danger Concepts Prejudice Our Children Careful Peculiar Seals Past Generations

Author:Brock Chisholm

“As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've been well aware painfully so, at times that the whole teaching/learning process is extraordinarily imprecise, most of the time a hit-and-miss operation. Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all.”

Source: Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence

“Don't seek approval. This may be the toughest suggestion for you to follow -- and the most important. Whether you'te a teenager seeking approval from your peers, a middle-aged parent seeking the approval of your kids, or a man or woman seeking the approval of a partner, it all amounts to the same thing. You're giving your personal power away every time you seek validation from someone else for who you are.”

Men Giving May Important Kids Parent Middle Amount Who You Are Seeking Partners Teenager Approval Peers Suggestions Validation Middle Aged Personal Power

Author:T. J. MacGregor

“God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year; And O! preserve my father too, And may I pay him reverence due; And may I my best thoughts employ To be my parents' hope and joy; And O! preserve my brothers both From evil doings, and from sloth, And may we always love each other, Our friends, our father, and our mother, And still, O Lord, to me impart An innocent and grateful heart, That after my last sleep I may Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge

“I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.”

Knows May Two Parent Distance Geometry I May Not Be

Author:Jane Wagner

“Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?'”

Should Firsts May Kids Today Parent Taught Mom Coaches Coming Back Dropping Always Working Working Parents

Author:Ray Lewis

“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.”

Ifs Giving May Children Littles Helping Problem Able Energy Parent Responsibility Poverty Environment Rights Modern Development Difficulty Complexity Upbringing Secured

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.”

May Children Parent Understanding Friends Devotion

Author:Vera Brittain

“you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn.”

Way Trying Mind May Littles Hard Turns Grows Parent Cases Growing Up Bother Always Wrong Pests

Book:Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

Source: Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

“The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting.”

May Children Long Parent Love Is Lasting Long Lasting

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom from the suffering of past generations of parents. Does the book you're reading contradict itself repeatedly, require you to override all your parental instincts, or send you into a panic over your own inadequacy? If so, burn it.”

Ifs May Doe Book Past Suffering Reading Parent Answers Generations Baby Offers Instinct Over You Panic Parental Inadequacy Past Generations

Author:Libby Copeland

“And if I may, call your mom, everybody. I've told this [to], like, a billion people, or so. Call your mom, call your dad. If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call 'em. Don't text. Don't email. Call them on the phone. Tell 'em you love 'em, and thank them, and listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you. Thank you. Thank you, Mom and Dad.”

People Ifs Want May Long Two Enough Parent Alive Planets Mom Dad Lucky Phones Billions Ems Email Your Mom Mom And Dad Your Dad

Author:J.K. Simmons

“each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.”

Way May Children Parent Generations Civilization Survival Better Ways Tribute Outwitting

Author:Lucy Freeman

“The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.”

May Children Country Happens Able Mother Parent Fields Labor Our Children Slavery Horrible Live Life Beloved Your Children Breakup Nurse Wet Monstrous Lynching

Author:Toni Morrison

“Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.”

Source: The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters

“The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.”

May Children Ends Artist Grows Parent Example Train Plant Average Dancer Chickens Stakes Ballet Wire Right Direction Accountants Massachusetts Ballet Dancer Certified Public Accountant

Book:Close to Home

Source: Close to Home

“As parents, you may confidently rear your children according to Gods Word. While bringing up your children, you are to remember that your children are not your 'possessions' but instead are the Lords gift to you. You are to exercise faithful stewardship in their lives.”

May Children Remember Parent Lord Exercise Our Children Possession Faithful Your Children Word Of God Stewardship

Author:John C. Broger

“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?”

Ifs World Believe Humans May Soul Body Faces Evil I Believe Process Parent Born Perfect Produce Monsters Eggs Genes Twisted Eden East Of Eden

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it well whentheir grown children need to regress and repair. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can catch you when you start to fall. When you are in disgrace, defeat, and despair, home may be the safest place to hide.”

Needs Wells May Children Sometimes Home Mother Fall Father Parent Offers Kissing Despair Defeat Womb Disgrace Grown Children

Author:Frank Pittman

“We never really are the adults we pretend to be. We wear the mask and perhaps the clothes and posture of grown-ups, but inside ourskin we are never as wise or as sure or as strong as we want to convince ourselves and others we are. We may fool all the rest of the people all of the time, but we never fool our parents. They can see behind the mask of adulthood. To her mommy and daddy, the empress never has on any clothes--and knows it.”

People Knows Want May Strong Parent Behinds Growing Up Wise Fool Clothes Adults Convince Mask Adulthood Daddy Posture Empresses Mommy And Daddy

Author:Frank Pittman

“The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.”

Giving Humans May Children Problem Would Be Turns Parent Human Beings Ability Accepting Growing Up Giving Up Adults Fellows Hiding Clinging Childlike Parental Lingering

Author:Frank Pittman

“Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.”

People Years May Children Two School Jobs Parent Hours Leader Teach Cases Teacher Duty Train Administration Boards Agreement Boss Principal Curriculum Janitor Board Of Education

Author:Virginia Satir

“The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be retained (although not always), but the suffering caused by the way you were mistreated will remain unconscious and will later prevent you from empathizing with others. This is why battered children grow up to be mothers and fathers who beat their offspring”

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“To be told that our child's behavior is "normal" offers little solace when our feelings are badly hurt, or when we worry that hisactions are harmful at the moment or may be injurious to his future. It does not help me as a parent nor lessen my worries when my child drives carelessly, even dangerously, if I am told that this is "normal" behavior for children of his age. I'd much prefer him to deviate from the norm and be a cautious driver!”

Ifs May Children Littles Doe Moments Helping Feelings Age Parent Hurt Worry Offers Behavior Normal Our Children My Children Help Me Drivers Norm Cautious Solace Deviate

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”

“Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.”

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be used because it may be a meanes to prevent strokes and blowes, especially in ingenuous and good natured children. [Blows are] the last remedy which a parent can use: a remedy which may doe good when nothing else can.”

Kind May Children Doe Use Lasts Used Parent Middle Discipline Blow Remedy Strokes Corrections Good Nature Admonition

Author:William Gouge

“I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.”

Thinking Want Feels May Different Real Song Parent Space Situation Right Now Drug Percent Track Albums Intense Feel Good Lots Of Money Autobiography Real Things

Author:Nicki Minaj

“If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may suffer from an underestimation of their needs. Our idea of what a child needs in each case reflects what parents need. The child's needs are thus a cultural football in an economic and marital game.”

Ifs Needs May Children Ideas Today Mother Suffering Games Parent Class Cases Economic Middle Century Football Accomplishment Middle Class

Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, "Children, you must no make so much noise," that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.”

Thinking World Giving May Children Parent Laughter Noise Seats Disturbed Vacant

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

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