#dre

Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield. ↗

— Paul Murray

#children #danger #safety #faith

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #family

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#children #feeling #having #me #wanted

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#billions #dollars #done #east #efforts

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#built #children #choice #choices #curse

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters. ↗

— Serge Lang

#biology #certain #competence #does #evaluate

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#children #entertainment #readers #reading #solitude

I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.' ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#coming #day #doll #down #dress

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#children #country #little #more #our

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction. ↗

— Janet Leigh

#facts #fiction #gives #i #i think