"Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children."
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"Feeling gratitude isn't born in us-it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children."
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"A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed."
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"My dad kept me away from people who treat children wrong. It's just amazing that there is such a way to raise a person without giving them complexes. But nobody does it. They think it should be the old school. But look at the products. Wouldn't it be great if you could avoid the complexes? Then you could deal with the complexes of life."
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"I had received Christ as my savior when I was a child, but I didn't know anything. I didn't have any knowledge. I didn't go to church. And I had a lot of problems, and I needed somebody to kind of help me along. And I think sometimes even people who want to serve God, if they have got so many problems that they don't think right and they don't act right and they don't behave right, they almost need somebody to take them by the hand and help lead them through the early years. And that's really what discipleship is. It's helping people."
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"In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love."
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"Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice."
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"Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man."
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"All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child."
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"The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith."
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"When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them."
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"As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become."
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"[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?"
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"Genius is childhood recaptured."
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"One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage."
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"When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and you just better hope you ain't in her way. That's the Lord's doing right there. He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain't around to do it most of the time. Helping that child be up to the mama. But God never gives us a task without giving us the means to see it through. That mama worry come straight from Him, it make it so she can't help but look after that child."
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"He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray."
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"I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now."
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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
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"As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other."
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