“Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?”
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Samuel Johnson 362
English writer 1709–1784Related quotes
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”
Variant: The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
In response to David Winer http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/scripting-news-for-12212006/
“Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.”
I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994)
Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=r03gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+have+found+the+best+way+to+give+advice+to+your+children+is+to+find+out+what+they+want+and+then+advise+them+to+do+it%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage with Margaret Truman, sitting in for host Edward R. Murrow, on Person to Person, CBS Television ( 27 May 1955 http://www.tv.com/shows/person-to-person/may-27-1955-1040725/)
“I will go in this way
Oh and I'll find my own way out.”
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Crash (1996)
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dice-rules-1991 of Dice Rules (17 May 1991)
Reviews, Zero star reviews
Context: Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.
“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.”
Cheryl Lavin (June 10, 1991) "Something Weird", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. 1D.
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“We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire