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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
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"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."
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"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."
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Personal Development
"I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love."
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Personal Development
"Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It's called being an example."
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Personal Development
"If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love."
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Personal Development
"And won't he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for the world. Ready to one day conquer it. To travel. Get on a train. Go to work. Get blown out of her life.Maybe she should be having that glass of wine and cigarette after all."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
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"Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life."
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"The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth."
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Explore more quotes by Robert Morgan
"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."
Poetry
"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
Literature
"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
Poetry
"I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery."
Love
"Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back."
Love
"The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character."
Character
"The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new."
Art
"Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle."
People
"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."
Poetry
"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."
Art
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