Abdelmajid Benjelloun Quotes & Sayings

Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and Sandra is bright," but all Susan will remember is that she isn't bright and Sandra that she isn't pretty. Praise each child individually for what that child is and help him or her escape our culture's obsession with comparing, competing, and never feeling we are "enough. — Jeffrey R. Holland

It is quite in the order of things in folk-tales . . . that a parent should purchase his own safety by sacrificing his son to a ferocious animal or to a supernatural enemy. — C. Fillingham Coxwell

Rosa Lee," he said, "with the privilege to vote - to choose - we can change things, even put our own people in power. — Linda Williams Jackson

Like the hub of a wheel, the church's corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them. — Harold L. Senkbeil

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time. — Charles E. McKenzie

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. — John Zorn

Enough, both of you,' Clary said. 'You can't be complete jerks to each other forever, you know.'
Technically,' said Simon, 'I can.'
Jace made an inelegant noise; after a moment Clary realized that he was trying not to laugh, and only semi-succeeding. — Cassandra Clare

I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It has a good, hard surface. — Robert Crumb

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good. — Rene Balcer