"Kids need to know more than just about unicorns and zombies and vampires. The rhetoric that's coming out is anti-black, anti-Mexico, anti-diversity. [Adults] definitely need to put it in context. I've talked to people who are literally struggling to sleep because they're anxious. Children pick up on that. Talk to your kid. Tell them, "this is what's bothering me." Explain that what's going on is unacceptable."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Eric Walters

#Children Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“I was attracted by the curve â€” the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.”
“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage
“When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.”

Source : "Congressman wants McClellan to testify under oath". www.cnn.com. May 30, 2008.
“I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.”
“I travel all the time, and I have two small children.”

Source : "Hope Davis: Will Six Degrees' Laura Bust Her Pal's Fiancé?". Interview with Sabrina Rojas Weiss, www.tvguide.com. October 12, 2006.
“I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place”
“Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.”
“The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.”

Source : Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.32, Crown Business

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