When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the product...ions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When society comes to value one child more truly, we shall have, for every community, a country homestead where that child can go,... who needs special encouragement. It will not be a penal place, nor even a place of reform, but it will be held out, rather, as a dear delight and a reward. But when society values the child enough, and realises what the child means to the State, and what the home means to the child, it will provide even better, for then the child will have, in its own home, all that a home should give.... There will be safety. There will be the chance to be well, to be pure; room to grow and breathe in; the sacred privacy of the home circle--all those things that are the birthright of every child. And there will be, in some way, beauty, to which the soul of the child naturally turns, as does a plant to the light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The crew was complete: it included a Boots-- A maker of Bonnets and Hoods--... A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes-- And a Broker, to value their goods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value it...self by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as we are learning to value and conserve the air we breathe, the water we drink, the energy we use, we must learn to value an...d conserve our capacity for nurture. Otherwise, in the name of human potential we will slowly but surely erode the source of our humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For most of us, the word family carries very personal and emotional connotations, but it is essential that we learn to view all of... humanity as part of the earth's family. While we have no trouble cherishing our own children, we must also appreciate our broader responsibility to the world's children. Only when we learn to value other people's children as our own will all children have the opportunity to reach their full potential. And only then can we be assured of our own future and the future of our planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look, I'm not saying he didn't make some major mistakes. When it comes to value judgments, Rob is right up there with Custer and N...ixon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lone...ly, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the scientists hope to do is describe the universe mathematically, predict it, and maybe control it. The philosopher, by contr...ast, seems unbecomingly ambitious. He wants to understand the universe; to get behind phenomena and operation and solve the logically prior riddles of being, knowledge, and value. But the artist, and in particular the novelist, in his essence wishes neither to explain nor to control nor to understand the universe. He wants to make one of his own, and may even aspire to make it more orderly, meaningful, beautiful, and interesting than the one God turned out. What's more, in the opinion of many readers of literature, he sometimes succeeds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »