#dre

Eating was still a sore point with Smriti.She failed to understand,when interesting options like mango juice or chocolates were available,why was she forced by her stupid mother to eat boring regular meals? After much contemplation,Nikhil came up with a suggestion'Don't give her food till she herself asks for it'. His idea'starve-to know-the-worth-of -food'made sense to Abhilasha,though it took her a great deal of resolve before she could actually try it out. So on a sunday,the'lady with an iron will'took over from'the soft and kind hearted mother'.she did not give her anything to eat and waited for the golden moment,expecting a hungry Smriti to beg for food. But the much awaited moment never came.Smriti was not at all bothered about her meal and kept playing happily. The day turned into evening and still there was no trace of hunger in her. "Aren't you feeling hungry?' now a worried mother had no option but to eat the humble pie and ask the daughter. "No Maa. My friend Pinky had brought wafers and chocolates. Those were so yummy that I ate them all......" And that was the end of her'starve-to -know-the-worth-of-food-mission. ↗

— Chitralekha Paul

#eating-habits #humour #writers #writing #food

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#businesses #children #death #death tax #destroying

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#courage #fit #free #great #our

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money. ↗

— Tom Kite

#around #charities #children #decided #event

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#character #our

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#advances #common #confidently #direction #endeavors

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings. ↗

— John Thorn

#beings #both #children #how #human

After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#federal #first #house #hundred #meaningful

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#around #big #big family #children #definitely

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#actually #being #dream #game #going