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 Believe 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,… — Laura E. Richards Bed Copy Share Image
I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life. — Laura E. Richards Dinner 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… — Laura E. Richards Buttons Copy Share Image
We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their… — Laura E. Richards Cake 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… — Laura E. Richards Dark 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… — Laura E. Richards Bounds 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… — Laura E. Richards Death Copy Share Image
read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of… — Laura E. Richards Believe 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… — Laura E. Richards Certain 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… — Laura E. Richards Active Copy Share Image
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