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Thu 1 Nov 2018

Children

Posted by PJ under books, children, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“You cannot write for children. They’re much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.”

—Maurice Sendak, interview, Boston Globe, Jan. 4, 1987

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Fri 13 Jul 2018

Where are they now?

Posted by PJ under children, intelligence, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”

—Fran Lebowitz, The New York Times, August 10, 1994

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Mon 20 Jun 2016

Watching

Posted by PJ under children, quote of the day, seeing
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Random quote of the day:

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

—Robert Fulghum, quoted in Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden by Bonita Jean Zimmer

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Tue 24 Nov 2015

Beautiful

Posted by PJ under beauty, children, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The sight of a small child sleeping remains one of the unassailably beautiful things—a bulwark against despair & cynicism.”

—Alain de Botton, Twitter, 2011

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Tue 5 May 2015

I remember Mama

Posted by PJ under children, love, parents, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Love your children reliably and they’ll gracefully outgrow you. Ignore them and they’ll be obsessed with you for life.

—Alain de Botton, Twitterfeed, January 17, 2012

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Tue 27 Aug 2013

Wandering stars

Posted by PJ under aging, children, growing up, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Old and young are more alike than grown-up. Grown-up is a different planet.”

—Patricia A. McKillip, Solstice Wood

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Thu 27 Jun 2013

Kids

Posted by PJ under children, growing up, quote of the day, teachers
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“Young people hate grown-ups for many reasons. One of the reasons is that they feel grown-ups’ minds are fixed and limited. Whenever they meet a man or woman who does not always say what they expect, who tells them novel stories about strange aspects of the world, who throws unexpected lights on what they sadly know as ordinary dull life, who seems as completely alive, sensitive, energetic, and zestful as they themselves, they usually admire him or her.”

—Gilbert Highet, The Art of Teaching

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Fri 21 Dec 2012

Happy holidays, everyone

Posted by PJ under childhood, children, growing up, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

 

“The great man is he who has not lost his childlike heart.”

—Mencius (Meng Tzu)

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Wed 18 Jan 2012

Hostages to fortune

Posted by PJ under career, children, future, marriage, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

 

“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times; unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges.”

—Sir Francis Bacon, “Of Marriage and Single Life,” Essays, Civil and Moral, Ch. VIII

 

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Tue 29 Nov 2011

Not grown up

Posted by PJ under childhood, children, growing up, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

 

“All grown-ups were once children—although few of them remember it.”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, dedication to The Little Prince

 

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