#chi

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#earth #governments #greater #hereditary #independent

You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the world. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#beautiful #beautiful thing #child #daughter #freaked

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#distrust #him #i #i have learned #learned

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#children #demand #escape #especially #fantasy

I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#chicken #go #i #i love #invent

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. ↗

— Sting

#children #example #get #good #gracefully

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with. ↗

— Sting

#confusing #freedom #give #i #i can

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#be nice #child #children #day #extension

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#black #came #children #cleaning #common

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#been #black #discussed #find #forced