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“The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one realized most how keenly how immoral it can be to believe too much in morality, and how much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.”
Source : Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.191, Simon and Schuster
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“It is life that hurts you not death.”
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“There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.”
Source : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.47, Broadview Press
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“Men will now get up and walk with the baby in the middle of the night, change its diapers, and give it a bottle, but in their heart of hearts they still think they shouldn't have to.”
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“The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun." Now that's horror.”
Source : Review of 1408, Salon.com, 2007.
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“Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!”
Source : Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.310, Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“Love the giver more than the gift.”
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“I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.”
Source : "Brothers who would be king". Interview With Vincent Moss, www.mirror.co.uk. August 29, 2010.