Jewell Parker Rhodes quotes

“Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.”
-- Jewell Parker Rhodes

Source : Jewell Parker Rhodes (2012). “The Marie Laveau Mystery Trilogy: Season, Moon, and Hurricane”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

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“But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. —Mama Ya-Ya”
-- Jewell Parker Rhodes

Source : Jewell Parker Rhodes (2010). “Ninth Ward”, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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“The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.”
-- Jewell Parker Rhodes

Source : Jewell Parker Rhodes (2010). “Ninth Ward”, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

#Life Quotes #Strong Quotes #Children Quotes

“Children know you ought to be fair. Especially fifth graders. I love fifth graders. They know that bullying is wrong. They know that you should praise one another, and that differences make a strong community. So sometimes I feel as though I can't wait for the fifth graders to grow up and rule the world.”
-- Jewell Parker Rhodes

Source : Source: www.hbook.com

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“I'm connected to the event of 9/11 by my desire to do something to honor the 9/11 survivors and those who didn't survive. Something that moves our society forward, something that engages children in what it means to be a citizen and encourages them to love and be inclusive. Because if we don't live our lives well - if I don't live my life well - it's an affront to all the people who were involved in the tragedy of 9/11.”
-- Jewell Parker Rhodes

Source : Source: www.hbook.com

#Children Quotes #Moving Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I wanted kids to have context for seeing the horrible footage of 9/11. I wanted them to feel the patriotism that united us, the sense of inclusivity, of not discriminating against religions. I want that feeling back, and I want to remind kids - and all of us - that we have a tremendous power when we remember our history and our founding principles.”
-- Jewell Parker Rhodes

Source : Source: www.hbook.com

#Kids Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Remember Quotes

“My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.”

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”

“Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.”

“The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried...”

“Women who miscalculate are called mothers.”

“Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.”

Source : "'Literature about medicine may be all that can save us'" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.

“When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.”

“Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.”

“We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.”