"Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency."

-- Jon Krakauer

#Children Quotes #Judging Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.”
“Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.”
“And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?”

Source : William Alexander Percy (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.171, Knopf
“My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.”
“Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.”
“Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.”
“Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.”
“On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes.”

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