I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand. — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words of one syllable; I am happy to say I have never… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand. — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life. — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
“...during the clear, calm days and years...we ought to be, laying by, as it were; storing up light and strength and happiness for the… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
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