Serials 2000 Quotes & Sayings

[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-control. Their goal was not to simply to ensure the child's duty to the family, but to help him or her make personal, individual commitments. They were the first authors to state that children must obey God rather than parents, in case of a clear conflict. — C. Sommerville

Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names. — Thomas Merton

I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in the standard sense of nonfiction, nor especially in the way we were thinking about nonfiction back then, in the late 90s. — John D'Agata

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred. — Alice Walker

Love begets love. That's God's way. — Anonymous

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. — Albert Camus

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated. — J. Maarten Troost

who was wearing a very handsome — Jane Smiley

A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant. — Charles E. Bohlen

But we believe that the Octavo must be read to avert catastrophe - otherwise why did the Creator leave it behind?" "Perhaps He was just forgetful," suggested the astrologer. — Terry Pratchett

What's the legacy of President Obama? I think this is just another, another example of passing the buck. It never stops at the White House. — Eric Bolling

People, like water, seek their own level. — Ann Landers

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. — Donald Norman