“Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them.” ChristianValuesParentSawsDogBabyConcernedSacredAncientContradictionFeedingRabbitsPottersFamily ValuesJungBoomersBaby BoomerAnthropomorphism Author:Peter York
“We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!” ShouldKindLawMotherNamesParentPerfectFemaleSacredTitlesProfane Book:The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition Source: The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition
“In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.” IfsYearsChildrenSchoolMotherFatherParentEducationPrinciplesExampleHabitMoralitySacredConstantUniversityVicesObligationVainImpressedInfidelityAcademyConcealedInfancyHabitual Book:The Portable John Adams Source: The Portable John Adams
“From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.” YearsTwoSeemsKidsTurnsReadingParentSoundMillionsGoneWonderfulMinutesLove YouPerspectivePromiseQuietPagesSacredInstinctMilesEveningFoldsI PromiseMiles Away Author:George Saunders
“On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.” MenMeanChildrenLongHas BeensHumanityParentVisionBreakPathOur LivesGrowingTenAuthorityTwentiesAgreeSacredGiantsJudgedQuestsCommandmentsFullnessMosesPilgrimGrowing Children Author:Sam Keen
“Children are a sacred gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Children are an heritage of the Lord (Ps. 127:3). The more I think about children, the more I worry about parents.” ThinkingChildrenFatherParentLordWorrySacredHeavenlyHeritageHeavenly FatherFather Child Author:Patricia P. Pinegar
“A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.” ParentMoralBecomingStandardsSacredMinimumMaintainingBecoming A ParentMoral Society Author:Andrew Vachss
“We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.” LooksGivenCausesParentSacredEngagedEntitledHostageSchools And Education Book:Lectures on Education Source: Lectures on Education
“The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.” IfsChildrenPersonsHandsNamesProcessParentNumbersSituationTeachingFoolCallingEssentialsCapacitySacredPrisonCrueltyEmployeeConsiderationCover Ups Author:George Bernard Shaw
“So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.” StatesValuesEasyParentBornUnitedNumbersCitiesBehindsUnited StatesPiecesLandNew YorkBirthRemainsSacredTrainZeroNew York CityRebirthWombWireSomewhere ElsePipeTunnelsBorn AgainCanalsStarting Anew Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it mean to be a good person, an excellent neighbor, a compassionate heart? What does it mean to say that God exits, that He loves us and He cares for us? What does it mean to love and forgive each other? Parents and caregivers of children must play a primary role in returning our society to a healthy sense of the sacred. We must commit to feeding our children’s souls in the same way we commit to feeding their bodies.” WayNeedsBelieveHeartMeanChildrenPersonsDoeSoulPlayBodyCareTodayI BelieveParentMoralVisionRolesHealthyOur ChildrenSacredForgivingNeighborCommitPrimariesExcellentOur SocietyCompassionateFeedingUrgentGood PersonExitInstillBeing A Good PersonCaregivers Author:Marianne Williamson
“O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.” MenFirstsSoulWisdomParentBornLibertyGeniusSacredCelestial Author:Edward Dyer
“The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly love and care for one another. We sense the importance of these relationships when we realize that our greatest expressions of joy or pain in mortality come from the members of our families” CarePainJoySpiritParentRealizingExpressionHonorMembersImportanceSacredOur FamilyHeavenlyMortalityEchoesCommandmentsSublimeFamily RelationshipLove And CareHeavenly Love Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“We are beloved spirit sons and daughters of heavenly parents, with a divine nature and destiny. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, loved us enough to give His life for us. His Atonement provides the way for us to progress on the path to our heavenly home, through sacred priesthood ordinances and covenants.” WayGivingEnoughHomeSpiritJesusParentChristDestinyPathProgressDivineSonDaughterJesus ChristSacredBelovedHeavenlySaviorCovenantAtonementPriesthoodOrdinancesSon And DaughterDivine NatureSavior JesusHeavenly Home Author:Carole M. Stephens