"And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people..."

-- Betty Smith

#Mother Quotes #Country Quotes #Children Quotes

“Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.”
“Hollywood is the sort of town where you wake up in the morning and look out to see if it's still there. I expect the whole movie colony to pick up its tents one night and go back to whatever fairyland they came from.”
“In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.”
“I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.”
“Think about how rare it is that you exist at all. Also think about time this way: If something exists, even for a second, then forever in the future that thing â€œexistedâ€, and forever in the past that thing â€œwas going to existâ€. So to even be conscious for a millisecond is a kind of immortality, but you have more than a millisecond. You have minutes. Hours. Months. A year? Years! This is a gift.”
“If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.”

Source : David Elkind (2009). “The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition”, p.26, Da Capo Press
“Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.”
“My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.”

Source : "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 565), 1965.

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