"However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home."

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Source : Robert Neelly Bellah (1985). “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life”, p.58, Univ of California Press

Robert Neelly Bellah

#Children Quotes #Home Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!”
“By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.”
“Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.”
“Itâ€™s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.”
“Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.”
“Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.”
“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
“The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.”

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