#heir

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#beyond #certainly #children #comprehension #emotional

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#another #child #children #dad #did

People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#answer #been #calling #disappointment #hear

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#children #deep #difficult #how #i

If I have one message to young swimmers about taking care of their bodies, it's definitely take care of your shoulders. ↗

— Eric Shanteau

#bodies #care #definitely #i #message

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#advocate #arrows #cows #hypocrisy #into

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#ever #eyes #lose #seen #sight

My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#breath #catch #chance #everyone #get

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#changes #draft #families #fought #group