"As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior."

-- Russell M. Nelson

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Iron Quotes

“Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it's hard to tell whose grades they are.”
“Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.”

Source : "The Dark River". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2007.
“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
“Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.”
“The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.”
“Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan.”
“Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!”
“I know what the caged bird feels, alas!”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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