"Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and……" — Jimmy Carter
"Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations."
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299 Quotes by Jimmy Carter
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that…
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you…
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good.…
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our…
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself…
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who…
— Arthur Ashe
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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
— John Milton
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a…
— Mary Midgley
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If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with…
— Chin-Ning Chu
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As we befriend our crush and get to know him better, make sure that you are honest and true all…
— Angus T. Jones
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I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to…
— George Galloway
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What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.
— Robin Sharma
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If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God,…
— Peter Deunov
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When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right…
— Bernie Glassman
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
— Kate Morton
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The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but…
— Michael Gurian
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