#children

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#bad #bad girl #children #cool #everybody

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#children #church #concentrate #feel #highest

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. ↗

— Dick Armey

#groups #money #need #other #people

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#about #children #choice #emotionally #fight

We have fallen upon evil times and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their parents. ↗

— King Naram-Sin of Chaldea

#parents #politics #respect

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#jo-s-boys #louisa-may-alcott #mothers #louisa-may-alcott

The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image. ↗

— Amy Chua

#chinese #health #mindsets #parenting #eating-disorders

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child. ↗

— John Irving

#children #divorce #divorce

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #night #poetry #poetry-quotes

To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#happiness #knowing #knowledge #literature #literature-quotes