The best time to start giving your children money is when they will no longer eat it. Basically, when they don't put it in their m...ouths, they can start putting it in their bank.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Teachers . . . were not much appreciated. As one Englishman put it (in 1678): "Were the particular salaries of school-masters thro...ughout the Land set forth in a table, it is not to be feared that their amply patrimony would excite the covetousness or envy of the reader."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Added man-made failure really hurts young children [under six]. No one has to contrive lessons for these youngsters so that they w...ill learn how to lose--they are losers too much of the time. No one has to put them in their place--they know all too well in their hearts the little place they are in. No one has to cut them down to size--their size is painfully small. At this stage in their development we are wise to stay away from competition, from games and races and contests with winners and losers. It matters too much to each child to come in first--they cannot stand the risk of competition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hi...t 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackasses ...there are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've... put it in an impossible situation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perchance the time will come when every house even will have not only its sleeping-rooms, and dining-room, and talking-room or par...lor, but its thinking-room also, and the architects will put it into their plans. Let it be furnished and ornamented with whatever conduces to serious and creative thought. I should not object to the holy water, or any other simple symbol, if it were consecrated by the imagination of the worshipers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, w...ho, for a part of the year, the winter and spring, are far the most numerous, but in the summer, except for a few explorers for timber, completely desert it; second, the few settlers I have named, the only permanent inhabitants, who live on the verge of it, and help raise supplies for the former; third, the hunters, mostly Indians, who range over it in their season.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some have been puzzled to tell how the shore became so regularly paved. My townsmen have all heard the tradition--the oldest peopl...e tell me that they heard it in their youth--that anciently the Indians were holding a pow-wow upon a hill here, which rose as high into the heavens as the pond now sinks deep into the earth, and they used much profanity, as the story goes, though this vice is one of which the Indians were never guilty, and while they were thus engaged the hill shook and suddenly sank, and only one old squaw, named Walden, escaped, and from her the pond was named. It has been conjectured that when the hill shook these stones rolled down its side and became the present shore.... If the name was not derived from that of some English locality,--Saffron Walden, for instance,--one might suppose that it was called originally Walled-in Pond.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »