"What I try to do in my picture books is to be all-inclusive, but not exclusive, to not exclude the kid and not exclude the parents from the experience. And it's not a very easy task; you can't find stories that work that way too much of the time."

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Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

David Small

#Book Quotes #Kids Quotes #Parent Quotes

“When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment.”

Source : Masao Abe, Steven Heine (1992). “A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion”, p.169, SUNY Press
“I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.”
“Evil prevails when good people do nothing.”

Source : Erin Gruwell (2016). “1,001 Pearls of Teachers' Wisdom: Quotations on Life and Learning”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.”

Source : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”
“Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.”
“There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up.”
“I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.”
“Sin begins in thought, which is the intimation of conscience. So, if the conscience holds sin, then its thoughts shall be evil.”

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