The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. —Flannery O'Connor More about this quote Tags: understanding life childhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Because children see parents as authority figures and gods, they think that the way you treat them is the way they deserve to be treated: “What you say about me is what I am” is a literal truth to your child. Consequently, when children are treated with respect, they conclude that they deserve respect and hence develop self-respect. —Stephanie Marston More about this quote Tags: truth children parents influence authority respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it. —Haim Ginott More about this quote Tags: generations parents influence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. —P.J. O'Rourke More about this quote Tags: love family wallpaper Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After all, in private we’re all misfits. —Lily Tomlin More about this quote Tags: misfits privacy self-esteem Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When all is said and done, the act of being a parent involves a set of radically unselfish and often incomprehensibly inconvenient activities. Two adults who could otherwise employ their time and resources in pleasurable activities of various kinds elect to seek housing and provide food and other facilities for completely dependent organisms whose personal schedules, furthermore, could not be at greater variance with adult ones, and who will involve their parents literally for decades in a compromise between a program of work or pleasure and the requirements of their offspring. It is not altogether remarkable that parents may have one child, if only in error or because of confused expectations of bliss. What is truly remarkable is that most parents have more than one child. —Lionel Tiger More about this quote Tags: children parenthood dependence compromise expectations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: history nations countries facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History fades into fable, fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy, the inscription molders from the tablet, the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids — what are they but heaps of sand, and their epitaphs but characters written in the dust? —Washington Irving More about this quote Tags: history memory myth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. —Wendell Barry More about this quote Tags: past escape bad creation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing has ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have? —Eckhart Tolle More about this quote Tags: power presence past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. —Helen Keller in Optimism More about this quote Tags: happiness rights Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others. —Tryon Edwards in A Dictionary of Thoughts More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge teaching Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. —Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. —Doug Larson More about this quote Tags: memory regret conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does —Virginia Peterson More about this quote Tags: mind memory experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email