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«If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.»
Author: Barbara Colorose
| About:
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
educators, families, functioning, healthy, job, kids, Kid The, teachers
«It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.»
Author: Elinor Smith
| About:
Family,
Money
| Keywords:
alarmed, baby, borrow, Cause for Alarm, families, necessarily, The Alarm, wits
«It is not observed in history that families improve with time.»
«One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
| Keywords:
admirable, Christianized, families, features, fiber, fibers, fulfil, Happy Family, heroic, Marriages, myth, normal family, oddest, stable, The Myth, Western
«It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.»
«Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| About:
Marriage,
Soul
| Keywords:
destinies, everyday, everyday life, families, Fates, mysteries, timeless, weaving
«Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence»
«Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.»
«Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
advertise, a couple of, belonging, couple, families, long-lived
«In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.»
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