"Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor."

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Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Simon & Schuster

Louise J. Kaplan

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Moving Quotes

“So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.”
“When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.”
“Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.”

Source : Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.300, Hot Key Books
“Believe in yourself and be proud of who you are. Don't let anyone tell you differently. There is beauty in everyone and no one should stop you from growing into a confident and strong young person.”
“I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.”
“The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.”

Source : Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, Sir Norman Lockyer (1906). “Education and National Progress”
“God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism.”
“I love the smell of fried chicken.”

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