#ids

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

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#better #books #children #critics #i

I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay? ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#christian #climbing #gonna #i #kids

Kids are so shrewd. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#shrewd

Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#best #enjoy #go #i #kids

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

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#break #candy #children #collapse #instantly

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#heart #midst #moderation #prosperity #shows

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#action #against #congress #control #first

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. ↗