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“The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.”

“What we teach our children is that earth is your mother that provides; she's a giver. So, please first ask forgiveness from the mother earth before you step on to it and cause it pain.”

Firsts Children Earth Pain Mother Asks Causes Steps Teach Please Our Children Giver Mother Earth Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Narendra Modi

“Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.”

Want Children Asks Grows Building Please Ask Me

Author:Rod Coronado

“Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.”

“If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.”

Ifs Children Might Grows Growing Up Love You Please Our Children Your Children Not Sure Love Your Children

Book:Role Models

Source: Role Models

“Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.”

“Please do as I requested, only if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck. Please do not do as I request if there is any taint of fear of punishment if you don't. Please do not do as I request to buy my love, that, is hoping that I will love you more if you do. Please do not do as I request if you will feel guilty if you don't. Please do not do as I request if you will feel shameful. And certainly do not do as I request out of any sense of duty or obligation.”

Ifs Feels Children Littles Joy Can Do Love You Duty Please Punishment Hungry Obligation Guilty Ducks Feeding Request Shameful Love You More

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“I want to have children, please God, with a woman that I love and that I'm very attracted to.”

Want Children Please

Author:Brandon T. Jackson

“Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.”

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Author:Richard Armitage

“Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.”

Ifs Trying Children Ends Taught Please Upset

Author:Richard Engel

“I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic... And those were all things I hated.”

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Author:Stan Lee

“To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.”

Knows Want Trying Children Father Failing Please Succeed Makers Apologizing

Book:Wild Grace: What Happens When Grace Happens

Source: Wild Grace: What Happens When Grace Happens

“Conditional love is love that is turned off and on....Some parents only show their love after a child has done something that pleases them. "I love you, honey, for cleaning your room!" Children who think they need to earn love become people pleasers, or perfectionists. Those who are raised on conditional love never really feel loved.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Children Done Shows Parent Love Is Rooms Love You Please Raised Honey Cleaning Perfectionist Your Room Turned Off Conditional Pleasers Conditional Love

Author:Louise Hart

“If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.”

Source: Secrets of the Cat: It's [sic] Lore, Legend, and Lives

“I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign a couple of cards for their children. Then I see them on eBay two weeks later. Or the people that write and say, "You is one of my favorite cartoonists. I would like a drawing, please." I guess they encourage inmates to write letters to celebrities. It's like a way to make money by selling autographs or something. Give me a break.”

“Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.”

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Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

“I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or they're only working to please us, they're not going to be interested in school.”

Ifs Children School Teacher Please Tests Asking Relevant

Author:Rafe Esquith

“A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.”

Way Should Writing Children Reason Speak Study Mystery Students Taught Please Exciting Sentences Medical Damn Grammar Anatomy

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“Dear Brothers and Sisters, Never resort to war! Never war! Above all, I think of all the children who are robbed of their hope for a better life and a decent future. Killed children, wounded children, mutilated children, orphans, children who play with remnants of war, instead of toys. Children who don't know how to smile. Please stop! I ask you with all my heart. It's time to stop. Stop it please!”

Thinking Knows Heart Children War Play Asks Know How Brother My Heart Please Dear Decent Toys Wounded Brothers And Sisters Better Life Resorts Orphan Remnants Dear Brother

Author:Pope Francis

“And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.”

Writing Children Remember Please Golden Grants Sticker

Author:Rick Riordan

“We spoke to God about the children, and we were afraid to ask God for specific things. We thought that it might be too much. So we said to God 'Please give us a healthy child' and left it at that, not knowing that God is a generous God, but also has a sense of humor. And if you leave that much open for God, some wonderful jokes are going to come about.”

Ifs Giving Children Said Might Asks Left Knowing Too Much Wonderful Please Healthy Jokes Generous Spokes Sense Of Humor Not Knowing Healthy Children

Author:Bill Cosby

“Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do. I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough....Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance.”

Thinking Children Enough Dream Seems Age Turns Lost Can Do Lord Worry Baby Please Limits Guilt Burden Heavy Missions Repentance Good Enough Confession Heavy Burdens Never Good Enough

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?”

World Way Children Play Might Creative Please Behave New Ways Creative Writers

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves.”

Knows Should Trying Heart May Children Littles Causes Know How Failing Tears My Heart Please Blame Faults Dear My Children Merit

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)

“Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.”

Source: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond

“I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.”

People Children Reality Found Please Hated Back To Reality

Author:John Lennon

“When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed." That kid's an artist now.”

“In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.”

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Author:Nigel Farage

“I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's very lyrical and that's certainly a very important aspect of poetry. But I think that a lot of it is verse. I write well-wrought verse.”

People Thinking Writing Wells Children Important Language Please Aspect Musical Delight Verses Lyrical

Author:Mary Ann Hoberman

“All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to be rude. And I'm seeing some problems today where somebody's losing a job because they made fun of a fat lady that couldn't fit in the elevator. I mean that was the sort of thing that, when I was eight years old, my mother made it very clear to me that that was not okay to say that kind of stuff.”

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Author:Temple Grandin

“Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.”

Children Sin Animal Teach Please Your Children Behave Pet Puppy Mills

Author:Shelley Morrison

“Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.”

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Author:Glenn Beck

“There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means nothing - to me it looks like an empty place - the thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God. Pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything. For I am only His - so He has every right over me. I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God. . . . Your devoted child in J.C. M. Teresa”

“A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.”

“To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.”

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Book:The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.”

Children Littles Loses Seeing Sea Please Mountain Increase Down And Blind Distance Misery Ships Fancy Folly Sail

Book:The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner ...: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe

Source: The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner ...: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe

“Dear Great Pumpkin, Halloween is now only a few days away. Children all over the world await you coming. When you rise out of the pumpkin patch that night, please remember I am your most loyal follower. Have a nice trip. Don't forget to take out flight insurance.”

World Children Remember Night Forget Nice Please Dear Flight Followers Loyal Halloween Patches Pumpkin Great Pumpkin

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers And cuddle near”

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Author:Nikki Giovanni

“But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right – somehow? But how? Please, Aslan! Am I not to know?" "To know what would have happened, child?" said Aslan. "No. Nobody is ever told that." "Oh dear," said Lucy. "But anyone can find out what will happen," said Aslan. "If you go back to the others now, and wake them up; and tell them you have seen me again; and that you must all get up at once and follow me – what will happen? There is only one way of finding out.”

Ifs Knows Way Mean Children Has Beens Said Happens Happened Please Findings Dear Get Up One Way Follow Me Lucy

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian

“The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.”

Children I Can Dies Please Hush

Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only LOVE.”