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“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

“When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.”

Past Dies Parent Return Realization Parting

Book:With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

Source: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

“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

“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 we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.”

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

“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

“I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.”

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Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.”

Ifs Want Parent Return Essence Longing Nostalgia Bad Things

Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson

“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

“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.”

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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.”

“You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.”