"The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it."

-- Albion Fellows Bacon

#Children Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Midst Quotes

“Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. Second, the fights are always the same.”
“Children don't just get milk from breastfeeding, they get our energy too.”
“I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.”
“I am not as intelligent as Aamir Khan . I am barely managing to be in front of the camera. There are many people who know marketing well and surely Aamir knows much more than I do.”
“I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.”
“If the hearts are pure, they will never have enough from reciting Allah's words (the Qur'an).”
“From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.”

Source : Elizabeth George Speare (2011). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!”

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