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A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after read more
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck.
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight read more
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Prolifers support warwaging candidates
whose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists.
Prolifers support warwaging candidates
whose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists.
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their read more
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.
things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5].
Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5].
