"Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults."

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Source : Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

Nina Bawden

#Children Quotes #Stronger Quotes #Adults Quotes

“Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease. Stand up for Truth! If you don't, there is no Truth to your existence. If you don't stand up for all that is right, then understand that you are part of the reason that there is no balance in the world, and why others will always stand under!”

Source : "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
“The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.”
“The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.”
“If we teach todayâ€™s students as we taught yesterdayâ€™s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
“A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.”

Source : Thomas Osborne Davis (1865). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174
“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”

Source : Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.348, Delacorte Press
“A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.”
“Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.”

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