"Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected."

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Source : "An Interview with Kathryn Lasky about Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

Kathryn Lasky

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“Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. To say that men and women should not inject their "personal morality" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity.”
“Tis a mad world, my masters.”

Source : John Taylor (1999). “Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet”, Sutton Pub Limited
“You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.”
“Late April and you are three; today We dug your garden in the yard. To curb the damage of your play, Strange dogs at night and the moles tunneling, Four slender sticks of lath stand guard Uplifting their thin string. So you were the first to tramp it down. And after the earth was sifted close You brought your watering can to drown All earth and us. But these mixed seeds are pressed With light loam in their steadfast rows. Child, we've done our best.”

Source : W. D. Snodgrass, “Heart's Needle”
“There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.”
“Problem is, you canâ€™t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. Youâ€™re like a dog at the dump, baby â€“ youâ€™re just lickinâ€™ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if youâ€™re not careful, that canâ€™s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.â€ â€œBut I love him.â€ â€œSo love him.â€ â€œBut I miss him.â€ â€œSo miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.”
“We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.”
“Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?”

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