"Right from the start my parents had..." - Quote by Phyllis Diller
Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably treated me like an adult, perhaps because they themselves were no spring chickens.
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“Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.”
“Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer”
“When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.”
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“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”
“Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.”
“When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.”