Quotes of: Child-abuse Keyword

Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, h...

Sylvie and Bruno

The world population is nearing seven billion. John Travolta and Farrah Fawcett didn’t procreate and produce all seven thousand million of us. Audrey Hepburn and Burt Lancaster didn’t personally populate the world. Almost every child that was eve...

Single Dad Laughing

A challenging career suddenly seemed more productive to me because I could measure the results of my work. These precious little ones had endless needs. They were busy little sinful creatures who demanded all of my body, time, life, emotions, and att...

The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child's Heart for Eternity

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you ca...

The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child with no hair on his upper lip and with wide open eyes, make as if to touch his forehead gently with one's hand and run one's fingers through his...

Maldoror and Poems

All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet curiosity by giving the answers, rather than b...

The Nature Of Natural History

It may be underfunded and at times mismanaged, but the [Endangered Species] Act is an unprecedented attempt to delegate human-caused extinction to the chapters of history we would rather not revisit: the Slave Trade, the Indian Removal Policy, the su...

Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to be clear about that, and advocate for no use. Although rape and child molestation are ubiquitous, we do not have campaigns fo...

Gary L. Francione

Noodles: Who is Secretary Bailey? Deborah Gelly: Secretary Bailey is a rich businessman. He came to the United States as an immigrant and made a lot of money in San Francisco and L.A., where he's lived for 30 years. Noodles: I know all that, it's all...

Once Upon a Time in America

New mothers enter the world of parenting feeling much like Alice in Wonderland. - Being a mother is one of the most rewarding jobs on earth and also one of the most challenging. - Motherhood is a process. Learn to love the process. - There is a treme...

Love

Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons? Vividly, Jace said. It was a dark time.

City of Heavenly Fire

I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.

City of Heavenly Fire

I don't carol, said Simon. I'm Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.

City of Heavenly Fire

Take it, and cut your brother's throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood.

City of Heavenly Fire

We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.

City of Heavenly Fire

Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

City of Heavenly Fire

Guys don't let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay that came out wrong.

City of Heavenly Fire

There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

City of Heavenly Fire

Almost four hundred years is quite a lot to take even if you moisture regulary

City of Heavenly Fire

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

A Complicated Kindness

It is not the pain that is pleasing to God, child. It is the soul's endurance in faith and hope and love in of bodily afflictions that pleases Heaven.

A Canticle for Leibowitz