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“The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.”

Children Mother Plans Return Backgrounds Germany Crippled Fatherland

Author:Friedrich List

“place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.”

“Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter. Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.”

Giving Heart Children Matter Done Evil Forget Return Bears Giving Up Hatred Revenge Insult Injury Remove Vegetables Sugar Salt Inferiors Spices Kindles Rogues

Author:Sivananda

“If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?”

“The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.”

Men Children Doe Ends Joy Sun Tree Sea Return Lifts Anguish Renewal Lofty Coconuts Cyclones

Author:Paul Gauguin

“South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.”

Should Children Hard Home Remember Order Games Walks Teacher Return Mass South Evening Curse Repeats Hardship Korean

Author:Kim Il-sung

“Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.”

People Firsts Children Facts Love Is Emotion Our Lives Childhood Dog Return Unique Remains Lasting

Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.”

Years Children Eye Return Sight Witness Length Splendid Posterity

Author:Jeremiah

“The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.”

Children Running Fall Found Lost Parent Sleep Cases Willing Broken Return Valuable Running Away Thieves Valuable Things Deep Sleep

Author:Margaret Mead

“A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.”

Children Country Running Streets Return Offers Office Strive Caring Neighbor Empowering Our Society Empowering Women Private Sector Running For Office Partnering

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Time Force Memories Sleep Behinds Known Events Movement Return Garden Brilliant Mourning Prophecy Reconciliation Spine Ribs Expulsion

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.”

Children Shows School Left Results Behinds Return Decades Left Behind Public School School System No Child Left Behind

Author:George W. Bush

“Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.”

Children School Brain Modern Return September Modern Life Grownups

Author:Roger Rosenblatt

“The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?”

Children Long Problem Bigs School Process Parent Return Decent Big Problems Dumbing Down

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down.”

Children Doe Stills Earth Return Towns Woods Loud Retreat Fling Gregarious

Book:Wine from these grapes

Source: Wine from these grapes

“Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor.”

World Giving Firsts Children Use Light Moving Mother Five Security Months Return Fixed Infant Harbors Orientation Beacons

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.”

World Feels Children Faces Moving Parent Behinds Ready Return Angry Divorce Broke Firm Abandoned Adolescence Abandonment Protective Outraged

Author:Mary Pipher

“If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.”

Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood

“The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.”

Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers

“In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have children despite their economic cost. This is a major, indeed a revolutionary, change.”

Children Today Past Parent Pleasure Economic Return Cost Majors Despite Revolutionary Parenthood American Family Revolutionary Change

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not qualify as a parent. For a child who can claim love without meeting any of the obligations of love will be a self-centered child and many such children have grown up in our time to become petulant lovers and sullen marriage partners because the promise of unconditional love has not been fulfilled.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“I had a fan who had a fictional relationship with me. She wrote letters to me and then wrote return letters to herself (from me). In her mind, we were married and had two children. Her parents finally uncovered this delusional life she was living and she got help.”

Mind Children Two Helping Parent Fans Return Married Letters Delusional

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.”

“We invest in things like the future, like our children, like education. In other words, we invest in things that we understand we will not see an immediate return of investment but everybody knows it will have a positive impact and you can easily measure it over the course of time. Your why is exactly the same thing.”

Knows Children Courses Return Our Children Impact Investment Positive Impact

Author:Simon Sinek

“The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was in the days of Solomon.”

Children Stills Waiting Enjoy Industry Return Universal Soil Application Capability Palestine Sabbath Solomon

Author:John Lindsay

“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.”

World Way Children Lasts Natural Views Cities Accepting Clear Acceptance Return Needed Lovers Illness Absence I Realized Graves Holes My Way Forty Intensity Ireland Exile Grim Swamps Rigor Fjords

Author:Kevin Barry

“In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.”

Ifs Giving Children Week Return Birth Normal East Germany Housewife Giving Birth Working Life East Germany

Author:Christian Schwochow

“You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect.”

Knows Giving Wells Children I Can Two Trouble Return

Author:Joan Crawford

“The images are visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic. They aren't laid down on the same tracks as thought. And sometimes, when they return to you, it is as if you feel them for the very first time. Memory lives on in the details, like the color of a room, a tone of a voice, the touch of a child, the smell of a man.”

Ifs Men Feels Firsts Children Sometimes Voice Memories Rooms Color Return First Time Track Details Smell Tone Visuals Auditory

Author:Martha Manning

“Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.”

“I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.”

Thinking May Children Made Past Remember Grows Childhood Return Promise Clarity Infatuation Childish Things

Author:Lauren Faust

“If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.”

Ifs Children Doe College Return Our Children Add University Population Former Latter Fanatics Harvard Legislature Virginia Kentucky Cambridge Transylvania

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Pure love is a willingness to give, without a thought of receiving anything in return. Love can save the world from nuclear destruction. Love God: turn to God with receptiveness and responsiveness. Love your fellow human beings: turn to them with friendliness and givingness. Make yourself fit to be called a child of God by living the way of love.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The thing to remember is that children are temporary. As soon as they develop a sense of humor and get to be good company, maybe even remember to take the trash out and close the refrigerator door, they pack up their electronic equipment and their clothes, and some of your clothes, and leave in a U-Haul, to return only at Thanksgiving.”

Children Remember Company Doors Return Clothes Be Good Temporary Sense Of Humor Packs Equipment Trash Refrigerators Haul Good Company U Haul

Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

“Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them: I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home. ... I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a creep. I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drugstore and confess, 'I stole this.' ... But most of all I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.”

Way Children Enough Home Mother Return Logic Silent Hardest Hated My Children Someday Over You Bites Bugs Creeps I Loved You Milky Way

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.”

Children Development Return Higher Our Children Investment Rate Yield Intervention Immunization

Author:Seth Berkley

“I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.”

Knows Children Care Young Pay Quality Focus Childhood Return Resources Investment Rate Health Care Young Children High Quality Dividends Betting Early Childhood

Author:J.B. Pritzker

“We need to remember the purpose of our service to one another. If it were only to accomplish some part of His work, God could dispatch 'legions of angels.' . . . But that would not achieve the purpose of the service He has prescribed. We serve God and our fellowmen in order to become the kind of children who can return to live with our heavenly parents.”

Ifs Needs Kind Children Remember Purpose Order Parent Achieve Return Angel Accomplish Heavenly Serving God Legion

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“It is the child that sees the primordial secret in Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. The child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.”

Children Enough Simple Secret Return Daring

Author:Laozi

“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”

“I grew up on welfare in the South Bronx; I had a very tough upbringing in that neighborhood. Reading books like The Four Agreements, A Return to Love, and The Power of Now helped me to overcome many internal battles. Had I not worked on myself, put value in myself, I would not have the loving and supportive people that I have right now in my life, including my husband and children”

“I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.”

Children Able Spirit My Own Return Glad Innocence My Children

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families. But I often return to one thing I said way back then - that politics is the art of making possible what appears to be impossible.”

Way Trying Years Children Art Said Gone Impossible One Thing Return Raised

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Let us return back to the peace process for our children and for their children. The peace of the brave which I have signed is my debt, part in our love for [Isaac] Rabin.”

Children Process Return Our Children Brave Debt Our Love Isaac Return Back

Author:Yasser Arafat

“My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Children Book Helping Shows Lines Cases Planets Return Bed Office Computer Roots Tiny My Children Diets If I Could Arriving Mit Life Line

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“On the return flight from my mother in Florida , I sat next to a businessman who asked me what I did for a living. I said, "I write," and it seemed totally ridiculous in the face of what had just happened. I mean, I couldn't think of anything more pointless than telling stories. He asked, "What do you write?" I said, "I write children books."”

Thinking Writing Mean Children Said Book Stories Faces Mother Next Happened Return Ridiculous Flight Sat Florida Businessman Pointless Telling Stories Children Book Childrens Book

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does, how she/she does it, what he/she returns to, where there is definite growth. Teachers could do the same or could set up 'play areas' which provide 'nutrition' for different intelligences... and watch carefully what happens and what does not happen with each child.”

Children Doe Different Play Happens Parent Growth Watches Teacher Return Areas Museums Nutrition Definite

Author:Howard Gardner

“The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.”

“One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.”

Love Feels Children Return Adults Assuming

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.”

People Children Young Social Security Mines Ready Return Percent Negative Rate Retirement Retiring Social Security Percentages Young Children

Author:Paul Ryan

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