Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
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If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I get asked a lot what books I recommend for a nursery, home library, etc., and I always tell parents to start… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
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But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
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Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
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With Wordsworth, indeed, the light of revelation did not fall upon human beings so unbrokenly as upon the face of the earth.… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
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To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
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